We report about a metaheuristic solving approach for a vehicle routing problem with a heterogeneous vehicle fleet. Customer locations require the visit of two different types of vehicles. Operation starting times at the customers are coupled by a specific time window constraint called implicit...

Cross-docking is a new warehousing policy in logistics which is widely used all over the world and attracts many researchers attention to study about in last decade. In the literature, economic aspects has been often studied, while one of the most significant factors for being successful in the...

Purpose: Aim at choosing a relative good vehicle routing in emergency conditions under constraint conditions when disaster happens. Rapid response and rescue can save a lot of people. Design/methodology/approach: Modeling analysis: establishing a mathematical model of multi-objective emergency...