Typology and literature review for dial-a-ride problems

Online multi-server dial-a-ride problems

In an online dial-a-ride problem, a crew of servers has to process transportation requests as they arrive in real time. Possible objective functions include minimizing the makespan and minimizing the sum of completion times. We give competitive algorithms and negative results for several online dial-a-ride problems with multiple servers. Surprisingly, in some cases the competitive ratio is dram...

Efficient feasibility testing for dial-a-ride problems

Dial-a-Ride systems involve dispatching a vehicle to satisfy demands from a set of customers who call a vehicle operating agency requesting that an item be picked up from a specific location and delivered to a specific destination. Dial-a-ride problems differ from other routing and scheduling problems in that they typically involve service related constraints. It is common to have maximum wait ...

Large Neighborhood Search for Dial-a-Ride Problems

Dial-a-Ride problems (DARPs) arise in many urban transportation applications. The core of a DARP is a pick and delivery routing with multiple vehicles in which customers have ride-time constraints and routes have a maximum duration. This paper considers DARPs for which the objective is to minimize the routing cost, a complex optimization problem which has been studied extensively in the past. S...

Online Dial-a-Ride Problems: Minimizing the Completion Time

Computer-Aided Complexity Classification of Dial-a-Ride Problems

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