Abstract
In the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery (VRPSPD), goods have to be transported from different origins to different destinations, and each customer has both a delivery and a pickup demand to be satisfied simultaneously. The VRPSPD has been around for about 30 years, and significant progress has since been made on this problem and its variants. This paper aims to comprehensively review the existing work on the VRPSPD. It surveys mathematical formulations, algorithms, variants, case studies, and industrial applications. It also provides an overview of trends in the literature and identifies several interesting promising future research perspectives.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 104987 |
| Journal | Computers and Operations Research |
| Volume | 122 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2020 |
Funding
The authors thank the two anonymous referees for their insightful comments and suggestions that helped improve the content and the presentation of the paper. The authors gratefully acknowledge funding provided by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council under grant 2015-06189.
Keywords
- Review
- Simultaneous pickup and delivery
- Survey
- Vehicle routing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- Modelling and Simulation
- Management Science and Operations Research