A computer-enabled solution procedure for food wholesalers' distribution decision in cities with a circular transportation infrastructure

DOI10.1016/J.COR.2008.08.020MaRDI QIDQ1013397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiangpei Hu, Zheng Wang, Minfang Huang, Amy Zhaohui Zeng

Publication date 17 April 2009

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2008.08.020

zbMATH Keywords

computer applicationsfood distributionheuristic search techniqueoptimizationvehicle routing problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59)

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• A cluster-based optimization approach for the multi-depot heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with time windows
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• CLOVES: a cluster-and-search heuristic to solve the vehicle routing problem with delivery and pick-up
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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• VRP
• CLOVES

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