Improved Genetic Algorithm and Mobile Application for an Up-to-date Traveling Salesman Problem

Vehicle Routing Optimization for Pandemic Containment: A Systematic Review on Applications and Solution Approaches

“…Due to the critical nature of sustainability in the post-pandemic era, future studies should emphasize the importance of emission reduction or risk minimization. Shen (2009b) [67] Ceselli (2014) [68] Clarke (2017) [93] Akwafuo (2020) [96] EL Midaoui (2020) [94] Gao (2020) [104] Muslu (2020) [103] Pacheco (2020) [91] Calvet (2020) [92] Gai (2021) [72] Gamchi (2021) [80] Huilin (2021) [52] Long (2021) [79] Table 14. Cont.…”

“…This finding makes sense, given the importance of using pharmaceutical interventions to control the pandemic. In addition, nine articles examined e-commerce logistics services, such as fresh food shipping [69,89,102] and parcel delivery [85,86,90,100,103,106], while four papers referred to on-demand transportation services [70,104,108,109], the use of which has been accelerated by the onset of COVID-19 in urban areas [92]. Among the rest of the articles in this area, one focused on oil distribution and one focused on ready meal delivery in hotels.…”

“…Regarding the solution approach, most work used metaheuristic and heuristic approaches to accelerate the generation of a routing plan. Population-based algorithms [52,71,79,85,94,97,103] prevailed in the pharmaceutical transportation problem; heuristics are often used to cluster customers [52,93] or develop a feasible solution first [96,104], followed by the implementation of exact solution procedures [68,80,83] or learning-based algorithms [104] to enhance the solution. Furthermore, the ML technique is utilized in [116] with a focus on the determination of potential depots.…”