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The Vehicle Fleet Sizing, Positioning and Routing Problem with Stochastic Customers (VFSPRP-SC) consists on pairing strategic decisions of depot positioning and fleet sizing with operational vehicle routing decisions while taking into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-21 David Corredor-Montenegro , Maria Jose Consuegra-Laino , Alfaima Lucía Solano-Blanco , Camilo Gómez

The soft capacitated facility location problem (SCFLP) is a classic combinatorial optimization problem, with its variants widely applied in the fields of operations research and computer science. In the SCFLP, given a set $\mathcal{F}$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hanyin Xiao , Jiaming Zhang , Zhikang Zhang , Weidong Li

The energy transition in transportation benefits from demand-based models to determine the optimal placement of refueling stations for alternative fuel vehicles such as battery electric trucks. A formulation known as the refueling station…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Nicholas Nordlund , Leandros Tassiulas , Jan-Hendrik Lange

The traditional Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) minimizes the total distance of the routes under the capacity constraints of the vehicles. But more often, the objective involves multiple criteria including not only the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jayanta Mandi , Rocsildes Canoy , Víctor Bucarey , Tias Guns

In the classic Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) a fleet of of vehicles has to visit a set of customers while minimising the operations' costs. We study a rich variant of the VRP featuring split deliveries, an heterogeneous fleet, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Arthur Mahéo , Tommaso Urli , Philip Kilby

This paper deals with generating of an optimized route for multiple Vehicle routing Problems (mVRP). We used a methodology of clustering the given cities depending upon the number of vehicles and each cluster is allotted to a vehicle. k-…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-01-26 R. Nallusamy , K. Duraiswamy , R. Dhanalaksmi , P. Parthiban

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is the combinatorial optimization problem of designing routes for vehicles to visit customers in such a fashion that a cost function, typically the number of vehicles, or the total travelled distance is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian , Knut Åkesson

We consider the Maximum-Profit Routing Problem (MPRP), a variant of pick-up routing problem introduced in \cite{Armaselu-arXiv-2016, Armaselu-PETRA}, in which the goal is to maximize total profit. The original MPRP restricts vehicles to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Bogdan Armaselu

In this paper, we present the Foundation Model for the Montreal Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (FM-MCVRP), a novel Deep Learning (DL) model that approximates high-quality solutions to a variant of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Samuel J. K. Chin , Matthias Winkenbach , Akash Srivastava

We introduce the Vehicle Routing Problem with Resource-Constrained Pickup and Delivery (VRP-RPD), where vehicles transport finite identical resources to customer locations for autonomous processing before retrieval and redeployment. Unlike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Manbir Sodhi , Romesh Prasad , Harishjitu Saseendran

We introduce in this paper a new variant of a location routing problem, to decide, the number and location of drop-off points to install based on the demands of a set of pick-up points, according to a given set-up budget for installing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Maria Albareda-Sambola , Víctor Blanco , Yolanda Hinojosa

We study a stochastic variant of the vehicle routing problem arising in the context of domestic donor collection services. The problem we consider combines the following attributes. Customers requesting services are variable, in the sense…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Mohsen Dastpak , Fausto Errico , Ola Jabali

The request-trip-vehicle assignment problem is at the heart of a popular decomposition strategy for online vehicle routing. In this framework, assignments are done in batches in order to exploit any shareability among vehicles and incoming…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-03 J. Carlos Martínez Mori , Samitha Samaranayake

The Moving Target Vehicle Routing Problem with Obstacles (MT-VRP-O) seeks trajectories for several agents that collectively intercept a set of moving targets. Each target has one or more time windows where it must be visited, and the agents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Anoop Bhat , Geordan Gutow , Surya Singh , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Complex real-life routing challenges can be modeled as variations of well-known combinatorial optimization problems. These routing problems have long been studied and are difficult to solve at scale. The particular setting may also make…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Marijn van Knippenberg , Mike Holenderski , Vlado Menkovski

In this paper, we study the Maximum-Profit Routing Problem with Variable Supply (MPRP-VS). This is a more general version of the Maximum-Profit Public Transportation Route Planning Problem, or simply Maximum-Profit Routing Problem (MPRP),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Bogdan Armaselu

This paper introduces a new routing problem referred to as the vehicle routing problem with vector profits. Given a network composed of nodes (depot/sites) and arcs connecting the nodes, the problem determines routes that depart from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Dongoo Lee , Jaemyung Ahn

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing problem is to find a minimum-cost set of tours that collectively cover clients in a graph, such that each tour starts and ends at a specified depot and is subject to a capacity bound on the number of clients…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Amariah Becker , Philip N. Klein , Aaron Schild

We introduce a transparent, encoding-agnostic framework for determining when the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) can achieve early quantum advantage. Our analysis shows this is unlikely on noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Chinonso Onah , Kristel Michielsen

The Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (CARP), introduced by Golden and Wong in 1981, is an important arc routing problem in Operations Research, which generalizes the famous Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). When every customer has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao