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The rapid growth of e-commerce and the increasing demand for timely, cost-effective last-mile delivery have increased interest in collaborative logistics. This research introduces a novel collaborative synchronized multi-platform vehicle…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sumbal Malik , Majid Khonji , Khaled Elbassioni , Jorge Dias

This paper develops a computationally efficient algorithm for the Multiple Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problem (MVPDP) with the objective of minimizing the tour cost incurred while completing the task of pickup and delivery of customers. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Jinsun Liu , Hyongju Park , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ram Vasudevan

Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are being used extensively in civilian and military applications for applications such as underground mining, nuclear plant operations, planetary exploration, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Venkata Sirimuvva Chirala , Kaarthik Sundar , Saravanan Venkatachalam , Jonathon M. Smereka , Sam Kassoumeh

We consider a 2-vehicle routing problem (2VRP) which can be viewed as a building block for the variety of vehicle routing problems (VRP). As a simplified version of the 2VRP, we consider a 2-period balanced travelling salesman problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Vladimir Deineko , Bettina Klinz

Two multivehicle routing problems are considered in the framework that a visit to a location must take place during a specific time window in order to be counted and all time windows are the same length. In the first problem, the goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-21 Greg N. Frederickson , Barry Wittman

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) constitute a core optimization challenge in modern logistics and supply chain management. The recent neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has demonstrated superior efficiency over some traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiangchi Meng , Jianan Zhou , Jie Gao , Yifan Lu , Yaoxin Wu , Gonglin Yuan , Yaqing Hou

The Multiple-Depot Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem (MD-SDVRP) is a challenging problem with broad applications in logistics. The goal is to serve customers' demand using a fleet of capacitated vehicles located in multiple depots,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jingyang Zhao , Yonghang Su , Mingyu Xiao

Finding a feasible and prompt solution to the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a prerequisite for efficient freight transportation, seamless logistics, and sustainable mobility. Traditional optimization methods reach their limits when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Elija Deineko , Carina Kehrt

Meal delivery services provided by platforms with integrated delivery systems are becoming increasingly popular. This paper adopts a rolling horizon approach to solve the meal delivery routing problem (MDRP). To improve delivery efficiency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Lejun Zhou , Anke Ye , Simon Hu

The worldwide growth of e-commerce has created new challenges for logistics companies, one of which is being able to deliver products quickly and at low cost, which reflects directly in the way of sorting packages, needing to eliminate…

With the rise of e-commerce and increasing customer requirements, logistics service providers face a new complexity in their daily planning, mainly due to efficiently handling same day deliveries. Existing multi-stage stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Léo Baty , Kai Jungel , Patrick S. Klein , Axel Parmentier , Maximilian Schiffer

Rising labor costs and increasing logistical demands pose significant challenges to modern delivery systems. Automated Electric Vehicles (AEVs) could reduce reliance on delivery personnel and increase route flexibility, but their adoption…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jingyi Zhao , Jiayu Yang , Haoxiang Yang

Learning heuristics for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) has gained much attention due to the less reliance on hand-crafted rules. However, existing methods are typically trained and tested on the same task with a fixed size and distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jianan Zhou , Yaoxin Wu , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang

Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) has emerged as a promising learning-based paradigm for addressing Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) by minimizing the need for extensive manual engineering. While existing NCO methods, trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuanyao Chen , Rongsheng Chen , Fu Luo , Zhenkun Wang

The Moving Target Vehicle Routing Problem (MT-VRP) seeks trajectories for several agents that intercept a set of moving targets, subject to speed, time window, and capacity constraints. We introduce an exact algorithm, Branch-and-Price with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Anoop Bhat , Geordan Gutow , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Optimizing delivery routes for last-mile logistics service is challenging and has attracted the attention of many researchers. These problems are usually modeled and solved as variants of vehicle routing problems (VRPs) with challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Qian Shao , Shih-Fen Cheng

This paper studies an extension of the rural postman problem with multiple depots and rechargeable and reusable vehicles capable of multiple trips with capacity constraints. This paper presents a new Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Eashwar Sathyamurthy , Jeffrey W. Herrmann , Shapour Azarm

This paper introduces the two-level capacitated vehicle routing problem (2S-CVRP). This problem combines the two-level bin packing problem and the vehicle routing problem into an integrated framework. The problem itself is an NP-hard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Congzheng Liu

In this paper we consider a 2-vehicle routing problem which can be viewed as a building block for the varieties of the vehicle routing problems (VRPs). To approach this problem, we suggest a framework based on the Held and Karp dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Vladimir Deineko

We study the computational complexity of optimally solving multi-robot path planning problems on planar graphs. For four common time- and distance-based objectives, we show that the associated path optimization problems for multiple robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jingjin Yu