The Vehicle Routing Problem
Published on 1. January 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
385 pages
978-0-89871-579-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the field of combinatorial optimization problems, the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most challenging. Defined more than 40 years ago, the problem involves designing the optimal set of routes for fleets of vehicles for the purpose of serving a given set of customers. Interest in VRP is motivated by its practical relevance as well as its considerable difficulty. The Vehicle Routing Problem covers both exact and heuristic methods developed for the VRP and some of its main variants, emphasizing the practical issues common to VRP. The book is composed of three parts containing contributions from well-known experts. The first part covers basic VRP, known more commonly as capacitated VRP. The second part covers three main variants of VRP: with time windows, backhauls, and pickup and delivery. The third part covers issues arising in real-world VRP applications and includes both case studies and references to software packages.
More details
Other editions
New editions
Book
10/2014
2nd Edition
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S.
€166.38
Article not available at the moment
Content
List of Contributors; Preface; 1. An Overview of Vehicle Routing Problems; Part I. Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems. 2. Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for the Capacitated VRP; 3. Branch-and-Cut Algorithms for the Capacitated VRP; 4. Set-Covering-Based Algorithms for the Capacitated VRP; 5. Classical Heuristics for the Capacitated VRP; 6. Metaheuristics for the Capacitated VRP; Part II. Important Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem. 7. VRP with Time Windows; 8. VRP with Backhauls; 9. VRP with Pickup and Delivery; Part III. Applications and Case Studies. 10. Routing Vehicles in the Real World. Applications in the Solid Waste, Beverage, Food, Dairy, and Newspaper Industries; 11. Capacitated Arc Routing Problem with Vehicle-Site Dependencies. The Philadelphia Experience; 12. Inventory Routing in Practice; 13. Routing Under Uncertainty. An Application in the Scheduling of Field Service Engineers; 14. Evolution of Microcomputer-Based Vehicle Routing Software. Case Studies in the United States; Index.