Bard, Jonathan F.; Jarrah, Ahmad I.; Zan, Jing - In: European Journal of Operational Research 206 (2010) 1, pp. 73-85
The primary purpose of this paper is to validate a clustering procedure used to construct contiguous vehicle routing zones (VRZs) in metropolitan regions. Given a set of customers with random demand for pickups and deliveries over the day, the goal of the design problem is to cluster the...