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Models, relaxations and exact approaches for the capacitated vehicle routing problem

Paolo Toth, +1 more
- 15 Nov 2002 - 
- Vol. 123, Iss: 1, pp 487-512
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This paper reviews the exact algorithms based on the branch and bound approach proposed in the last years for the solution of the basic version of the vehicle routing problem (VRP), where only the vehicle capacity constraints are considered, and concludes by examining possible future directions of research in this field.
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This article is published in Discrete Applied Mathematics.The article was published on 2002-11-15 and is currently open access. It has received 1019 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Branch and bound & Vehicle routing problem.

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Handbook of Constraint Programming

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Location-routing: Issues, models and methods

TL;DR: This paper proposes a classification scheme and looks at a number of problem variants in location-routing: a relatively new branch of locational analysis that takes into account vehicle routing aspects.
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The vehicle routing problem

TL;DR: This classification is the first to categorize the articles of the VRP literature to this level of detail and is based on an adapted version of an existing comprehensive taxonomy.
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Fifty Years of Vehicle Routing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a brief account of the development in the field of exact algorithms and heuristics for the VRP and present a metaheuristic for the problem.

Fifty Years of Vehicle Routing

TL;DR: The Vehicle Routing Problem was introduced 50 years ago by Dantzig and Ramser under the title “The Truck Dispatching Problem” and has given rise to major developments in the fields of exact algorithms and heuristics.
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The vehicle routing problem

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive overview of the most important techniques proposed for the solution of hard combinatorial problems in the area of vehicle routing problems, focusing on a specific family of problems.

The traveling salesman problem

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The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms

TL;DR: In this paper, some of the main known results relative to the Vehicle Routing Problem are surveyed.