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Dynamic and Stochastic Vehicle Routing in Practice

Abstract

The VRP is a key to efficient transportation logistics. It is a computationally very hard problem. Whereas classical OR models are static and deterministic, these assumptions are rarely warranted in an industrial setting. Lately, there has been an increased focus on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing in the research community. However, very few generic routing tools based on stochastic or dynamic models are available. We illustrate the need for dynamics and stochastic models in industrial routing, describe the Dynamic and Stochastic VRP, and how we have extended a generic VRP solver to cope with dynamics and uncertainty

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Mathematics and Cybernetics

Year

2007

Publisher

Springer

Book

Dynamic Fleet Management: Concepts, Systems, Algorithms & Case Studies

Issue

38

ISBN

9780387717210

Page(s)

41 - 63

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