Assigning and scheduling vehicle routes in a dynamic environment is a crucial management problem. Despite numerous publications dealing with efficient scheduling methods for vehicle routing, very few addressed the inherent stochastic and dynamic nature of travel times. In this paper, …
Mobile communication technologies enable truck drivers to keep abreast of changing traffic conditions in real-time. We assume that such communication capability exists for a single vehicle traveling from a known origin to a known destination where certain arcs en route …
The traveling salesman problem is one of the most famous combinatorial optimization problems and has been intensively studied. Many extensions to the basic problem have also been proposed, with the aim of making the resulting mathematical models as realistic as …
This paper studies an arc routing problem with capacity constraints and time-dependent service costs. This problem is motivated by winter gritting applications where the “timing” of each intervention is crucial. The exact problem-solving approach reported here first transforms the arc …
© 2006 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.Time dependent vehicle routing problem is a vehicle routing problem in which travel costs along the network are dependent upon the time of day during which travel is to be carried out. …
This article considers the application of an on-line vehicle scheduling system to road networks where travel speeds vary over time. In such conditions, the volume of path calculations needed to maintain a consistent view of vehicle deployments may be much …
In this paper, the use of queueing theory for modeling uninterrupted traffic flows is evaluated. Empirical data on speeds and flows are used to evaluate speeds generated by the different queueing models. Using the Theil inequality coefficient as evaluation criterion, …
Both within and between urban conurbations, the time of a journey and the corresponding shortest path in a road network from an origin to a destination may depend on the time of the day, the day of the week and …
In this article, the real-time time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows is formulated as a series of mixed integer programming models that account for real-time and time-dependent travel times, as well as for real-time demands in a unified framework. …
The field of dynamic vehicle routing and scheduling is growing at a fast pace nowadays, due to many potential applications in courier services, emergency services, truckload and less-than-truckload trucking, and many others. In this paper, a dynamic vehicle routing and …