The location-routing problem (LRP), which integrates location and routing decisions, has been an attraction to both researchers and practitioners. LRP as an important business problem has its own inherent uncertainty; especially, considering phenomena such as traffic congestion and weather conditions and their impact on transportation costs, routing in LRP is subject to uncertainty. In this pap...

Wepropose a generalization of themulti-depot capacitated vehicle routing problemwhere the assumption of visiting each customer does not hold. In this problem, called the Multi-Depot Covering Tour Vehicle Routing Problem (MDCTVRP), the demand of each customer could be satisfied in two different ways: either by visiting the customer along the tour or by “covering” it. When a customer is visited, ...

In this article, we propose a special case of two-echelon location-routing problem (2E-LRP) in cash-in-transit (CIT) sector. To tackle this realistic problem and to make the model applicable, a rich LRP considering several existing real-life variants and characteristics named BO-2E-PCLRPSD-TW including different objective functions, multiple echelons, multiple periods, capacitated vehicles, dis...

this paper discusses the multi-depot vehicle routing problem of heterogeneous fleet of vehicles with time windows for perishable commodities. the objective of the problem is to minimize the total time required for servicing all customers that is equivalent to the total cost. commodities are delivered to the customers with defined time windows by a fleet of heterogeneous vehicles, which have lim...

This research present a set-partitioning heuristic to generate populations in a hybrid genetic algorithm (hGA) which is able to solve four different variants of the vehicle routing problem: the multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP), the heterogeneous fleet and mix decisions (type, size and number of vehicle) (HFMVRP), site dependent vehicle routing problem (SDVRP) and the asymmetric vehic...

background & aim: nowadays, home health care services play significant roles in modern societies. such services allow the elderly and needy people to pass their treatment process at their own houses in a friendly environment. in this paper, weekly routing and scheduling problem of home health care personnel was investigated. methods & materials: insufficient number of expert personnel or overla...

In this paper, a novel methodology is proposed to solve a cooperative multi-depot vehicle routing problem. We establish a mathematical model for multi-owner VRP in which each owner (i.e. player) manages single or multiple depots. The basic idea consists of offering an option that owners cooperatively manage the VRP to save their costs. We present cooperative game theory techniques for cost savi...