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Vehicle Routing

Vehicle Routing

Vehicle Routing

Problems, Methods, and Applications
2nd Edition
Paolo Toth, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
Daniele Vigo, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
February 2015
Paperback
9781611973587
$119.00
USD
Paperback

    Vehicle routing problems, among the most studied in combinatorial optimization, arise in many practical contexts (freight distribution and collection, transportation, refuse collection, and so on). Researchers have made significant recent progress in the development of solution algorithms, which are explored in this book. The text of this new edition is either completely new or significantly revised and provides extensive state-of-the-art coverage of vehicle routing; it emphasizes methodologies for specific classes of vehicle routing problems and contains a complete overview of current solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. It also includes several chapters on important and emerging applications, such as disaster relief and green vehicle routing. This book is intended for both researchers and graduate students in operations research and applied mathematics. Practitioners will find this book particularly useful. Readers need only basic knowledge of the main solution methods for combinatorial optimization problems.

    • Extensive cutting-edge coverage of vehicle routing by pioneering researchers
    • Includes a complete overview of current solutions to combinatorial optimization problems
    • Provides coverage of important emerging applications such as disaster relief and green vehicle routing

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    February 2015
    Paperback
    9781611973587
    480 pages
    255 × 177 × 24 mm
    0.86kg
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    Table of Contents

    • List of figures
    • List of tables
    • Preface to the second edition
    • Preface to the first edition
    • 1. The family of vehicle routing problems
    • Part I. The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem:
    • 2. Classical exact algorithms for the capacitated vehicle routing problem
    • 3. New exact algorithms for the capacitated vehicle routing problem
    • 4. Heuristics for the vehicle routing problem
    • Part II. Important Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem:
    • 5. The vehicle routing problem with time windows
    • 6. Pickup-and-delivery problems for goods transportation
    • 7. Pickup-and-delivery problems for people transportation
    • 8. Stochastic vehicle routing problems
    • 9. Four variants of the vehicle routing problem
    • 10. Vehicle routing problems with profits
    • 11. Dynamic vehicle routing problems
    • Part III. Applications of the Vehicle Routing Problem:
    • 12. Software tools and emerging technologies for vehicle routing and intermodal transportation
    • 13. Ship routing and scheduling in industrial and tramp shipping
    • 14. Vehicle routing applications in disaster relief
    • 15. Green vehicle routing
    • Index.