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Vehicle Routing

Vehicle Routing is a mathematical optimization problem within transportation decision support that determines the optimal set of routes for a fleet of vehicles to serve a given set of customers, distinguished from related scheduling and logistics problems by its focus on minimizing travel costs while satisfying capacity, time, and service constraints.

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The Truck Dispatching Problem

George B. Dantzig, J. H. Ramser · Management Science · 1959 · 4.9K citations

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Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems with Time Window Constraints

Marius M. Solomon · Operations Research · 1987 · 4.2K citations

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Scheduling of Vehicles from a Central Depot to a Number of Delivery Points

Graham Clarke, J. W. Wright · Operations Research · 1964 · 3.8K citations

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An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Heuristic for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows

David Pisinger · Transportation Science · 2006 · 2.4K citations

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

Gilbert Laporte · European Journal of Operational Research · 1992 · 1.7K citations

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Authors

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  1. GL
    Gilbert Laporte

    HEC Montréal, Canada

    81 publications · 13.7K citations

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  2. MG
    Michel Gendreau

    Université de Montréal, Canada

    79 publications · 14.2K citations

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  3. BG
    Bruce Golden

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    47 publications · 5.8K citations

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  4. RF
    Richard F. Hartl

    University of Vienna, Austria

    38 publications · 5.3K citations

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  5. ÁA
    Ángel A. Juan

    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain

    48 publications · 2.4K citations

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Institutions

2.3K

  1. HEC Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    74 h-index

    157 publications

    26.4K citations

  2. Université de Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    68 h-index

    193 publications

    40.6K citations

  3. Polytechnique Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    53 h-index

    158 publications

    15K citations

  4. University of Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    49 h-index

    119 publications

    18.2K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    48 h-index

    209 publications

    16.1K citations

  6. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    45 h-index

    104 publications

    13.5K citations

  7. Université du Québec à Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    44 h-index

    82 publications

    10.2K citations

  8. Group for Research in Decision Analysis

    Montreal, Canada

    40 h-index

    103 publications

    12.5K citations

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  1. European Journal of Operational Research

    282 publications · 34.2K citations

    102

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  2. Computers & Operations Research

    251 publications · 32K citations

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  3. Transportation Science

    225 publications · 32.5K citations

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  4. Operations Research

    74 publications · 23.2K citations

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  5. Journal of the Operational Research Society

    OR · 109 publications · 9.2K citations

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