The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges

Language: English

Published by Springer Us Jun 2008, 2008

0387777776 / 9780387777771

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Theoretical research and practical applications in the eld of vehicle routing started in 1959 with the truck dispatching problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser [1]: nd the '. . . optimum routing of a eet of gasoline delivery trucks between a bulk terminal and a large number of service stations supplied by the terminal. ' Using a method based on a linear programming formulation, their hand calculations produced a near-optimal solution with four routes to aproblemwithtwelve service stations. The authorsproclaimed:'Nopractical applications of the method have been made as yet. ' In the nearly 50 years since the Dantzig and Ramser paper appeared, work in the eld has exploded dramatically. Today, a Google Scholar search of the words vehicle routing problem (VRP) yields more than 21,700 entries. The June 2006 issue of OR/MS Today provided a survey of 17 vendors of commercial routing software whose packages are currently capable of solving average-size problems with 1,000 stops, 50 routes, and two-hour hard-time windows in two to ten minutes [2]. In practice, vehicle routing may be the single biggest success story in operations research. For example, each day 103,500 drivers at UPS follow computer-generated routes. The drivers visit 7. 9 million customers and handle an average of 15. 6 million packages [3]. 591 pp. Englisch.…

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Title
The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges
Author
Bruce L Golden
Publisher
Springer Us Jun 2008
Publication year
2008
Condition
Neu
Binding
Buch
Language
English
ISBN 10
0387777776
ISBN 13
9780387777771
Item weight
970 grams
Dimensions
245x165x35 mm

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