Psaraftis, HN, Wen, M and Kontovas, CA (2016) Dynamic vehicle routing problems: Three decades and counting. Networks, 67 (1). pp. 3-31. ISSN 0028-3045

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Abstract

Since the late 70s, much research activity has taken place on the class of dynamic vehicle routing problems (DVRP), with the time period after year 2000 witnessing a real explosion in related papers. Our paper sheds more light into work in this area over more than 3 decades by developing a taxonomy of DVRP papers according to 11 criteria. These are (1) type of problem, (2) logistical context, (3) transportation mode, (4) objective function, (5) fleet size, (6) time constraints, (7) vehicle capacity constraints, (8) the ability to reject customers, (9) the nature of the dynamic element, (10) the nature of the stochasticity (if any), and (11) the solution method. We comment on technological vis-à-vis methodological advances for this class of problems and suggest directions for further research. The latter include alternative objective functions, vehicle speed as decision variable, more explicit linkages of methodology to technological advances and analysis of worst case or average case performance of heuristics.© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0102 Applied Mathematics, 0103 Numerical And Computational Mathematics, 0802 Computation Theory And Mathematics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
Divisions:	Maritime & Mechanical Engineering (merged with Engineering 10 Aug 20)
Publisher:	Wiley
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2016 14:38
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2022 08:16
DOI or ID number:	10.1002/net.21628
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3846

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