Zhong, Yingjie; Cole, Michael H. - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 41 (2005) 2, pp. 131-144
This paper presents a guided local search heuristic to solve a vehicle routing problem with backhauls and time windows. The VRPBTW with and without customer precedence are both considered. Customer precedence requires that all linehaul customers be visited before any backhaul customer. The basic...