2016
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.2016.1167357
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Road-based goods transportation: a survey of real-world logistics applications from 2000 to 2015

Abstract: 5The vehicle routing problem has been widely studied from a technical point of view for more than 50 years. Many of its variants are rooted in practical settings.This paper provides a survey of the main real-life applications of road-based goods transportation over the past 15 years. It reviews papers in the areas of oil, gas and fuel transportation, retail, waste collection and management, mail and package de-10 livery and food distribution. Some perspectives on future research and applications are discussed.

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“…This is particularly important because most real-world systems for optimizing vehicle routes are custom made and lack the latest findings published in the literature. This fact is reflected in a recent survey of road-based goods transport applications [95].…”
Section: Good Practices For Results Publicationmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…This is particularly important because most real-world systems for optimizing vehicle routes are custom made and lack the latest findings published in the literature. This fact is reflected in a recent survey of road-based goods transport applications [95].…”
Section: Good Practices For Results Publicationmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…The different problems arisen in this field produce a huge amount of works annually in both international conferences [11,12], and journals [13,14,15]. In addition, they inspire the edition of several technical reports [16], and scientific books [17,18]. It is noteworthy that two of the most studied routing problems are the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) [19], and the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) [20], which are the focus of a great number of studies in the literature [21,22].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Transportation encompasses [55] distribution of goods, movement of people, and the provision of services such as waste collection. Smart freight is concerned with enhancing the movement of vehicles that carry goods into, out of and within urban areas.…”
Section: Freight and Public Transitmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since genuine VRPs incorporate a wide assortment of imperatives, they can once in a while be unraveled through the execution of off-the-rack programming. [2] A. Holzapfel, consider the issue of doling out stockkeeping units to conveyance focuses (DCs) belongingtodifferentDCtypesofaretailnetwork, e.g.,central,regional, andlocalDCs. The issue is roused by the genuine circumstance of a retail organization and understood by a MIP arrangement approach.…”
Section: IIImentioning
confidence: 99%