Abstract
It has been around 30 years since the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem was introduced, and significant progress has since been made on this problem and its variants. The aim of this survey paper is to classify and review the literature on heterogeneous vehicle routing problems. The paper also presents a comparative analysis of the metaheuristic algorithms that have been proposed for these problems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-21 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Volume | 249 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 15 Jul 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Feb 2016 |
Funding
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding provided by the Southampton Business School of University of Southampton and by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council under grants 39682–10 and 436014–2013 . Thanks are due to three referees for their valuable comments.
Keywords
- Fleet size and mix
- Heterogeneous fleet
- Review
- Vehicle routing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science
- Modelling and Simulation
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Information Systems and Management