The Vehicle Routing Problem

Latest Advances and New Challenges

By: Bruce L. Golden (Editor), S. Raghavan (Editor), Edward A. Wasil (Editor)

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Hardcover | 2 June 2008

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Theoretical research and practical applications in the ?eld of vehicle routing started in 1959 with the truck dispatching problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser 1]: ?nd the ". . . optimum routing of a ?eet of gasoline delivery trucks between a bulk terminal and a large number of service stations supplied by the terminal. " Using a method based on a linear programming formulation, their hand calculations produced a near-optimal solution with four routes to aproblemwithtwelve service stations. The authorsproclaimed: "Nopractical applications of the method have been made as yet. " In the nearly 50 years since the Dantzig and Ramser paper appeared, work in the ?eld has exploded dramatically. Today, a Google Scholar search of the words vehicle routing problem (VRP) yields more than 21,700 entries. The June 2006 issue of OR/MS Today provided a survey of 17 vendors of commercial routing software whose packages are currently capable of solving average-size problems with 1,000 stops, 50 routes, and two-hour hard-time windows in two to ten minutes 2]. In practice, vehicle routing may be the single biggest success story in operations research. For example, each day 103,500 drivers at UPS follow computer-generated routes. The drivers visit 7. 9 million customers and handle an average of 15. 6 million packages 3].

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"The routing of vehicles with limited capacities for carrying goods or people is one of the major problems in transport logistics. ... The book is clearly structured and mostly well written. I can recommend it to any reader who wants to deepen his or her understanding of vehicle routing problems. ... the book is not only suited for experts in the area of vehicle routing but also for interested practitioners (especially the application-oriented chapters); and students." (T Hanne, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 60 (11), 2009)

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Routing a Heterogeneous Fleet of Vehicles	p. 3
A Decade of Capacitated Arc Routing	p. 29
Inventory Routing	p. 49
The Period Vehicle Routing Problem and its Extensions	p. 73
The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem: A Survey	p. 103
Challenges and Advances in A Priori Routing	p. 123
Metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem and Its Extensions: A Categorized Bibliography	p. 143
Parallel Solution Methods for Vehicle Routing Problems	p. 171
Recent Developments in Dynamic Vehicle Routing Systems	p. 199
New Directions in Modeling and Algorithms
Online Vehicle Routing Problems: A Survey	p. 221
Modeling and Solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem on Trees	p. 239
Using a Genetic Algorithm to Solve the Generalized Orienteering Problem	p. 263
An Integer Linear Programming Local Search for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems	p. 275
Robust Branch-Cut-and-Price Algorithms for Vehicle Routing Problems	p. 297
Recent Models and Algorithms for One-to-One Pickup and Delivery Problems	p. 327
One-to-Many-to-One Single Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problems	p. 359
Challenges and Opportunities in Attended Home Delivery	p. 379
Chvatal-Gomory Rank-1 Cuts Used in a Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows	p. 397
Vehicle Routing Problems with Inter-Tour Resource Constraints	p. 421
From Single-Objective to Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems: Motivations, Case Studies, and Methods	p. 445
Practical Applications
Vehicle Routing for Small Package Delivery and Pickup Services	p. 475
Advances in Meter Reading: Heuristic Solution of the Close Enough Traveling Salesman Problem over a Street Network	p. 487
Multiperiod Planning and Routing on a Rolling Horizon for Field Force Optimization Logistics	p. 503
Health Care Logistics, Emergency Preparedness, and Disaster Relief: New Challenges for Routing Problems with a Focus on the Austrian Situation	p. 527
Vehicle Routing Problems and Container Terminal Operations - An Update of Research	p. 551
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