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Background: The Multi Depot Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Heterogeneous Vehicle Fleets (MDPDPTWHV) is a strongly practically oriented routing problem with many real-world constraints. Due to its complexity, solution approaches with sufficiently good quality ideally contain...

Due to the increasing price pressure in the less-than-truckload (LTL) market, horizontal cooperation is an effective and efficient way for small- and medium-sized LTL carriers to enhance their profits by exchanging requests. For this purpose, a decentralized auction-based collaboration framework...