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Collaborative vehicle routing: a survey

Multiagent Systems 2017-06-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Optimization and Control Physics and Society

Abstract

In horizontal collaborations, carriers form coalitions in order to perform parts of their logistics operations jointly. By exchanging transportation requests among each other, they can operate more efficiently and in a more sustainable way. Collaborative vehicle routing has been extensively discussed in the literature. We identify three major streams of research: (i) centralized collaborative planning, (ii) decentralized planning without auctions, and (ii) auction-based decentralized planning. For each of them we give a structured overview on the state of knowledge and discuss future research directions.

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@article{arxiv.1706.05254,
  title  = {Collaborative vehicle routing: a survey},
  author = {Margaretha Gansterer and Richard F. Hartl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.05254},
  year   = {2017}
}
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