Bruce L. Golden & S. Raghavan 
The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges 

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].

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Overviews and Surveys.- Routing a Heterogeneous Fleet of Vehicles.- A Decade of Capacitated Arc Routing.- Inventory Routing.- The Period Vehicle Routing Problem and its Extensions.- The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem: A Survey.- Challenges and Advances in A Priori Routing.- Metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem and Its Extensions: A Categorized Bibliography.- Parallel Solution Methods for Vehicle Routing Problems.- Recent Developments in Dynamic Vehicle Routing Systems.- New Directions in Modeling and Algorithms.- Online Vehicle Routing Problems: A Survey.- Modeling and Solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem on Trees.- Using a Genetic Algorithm to Solve the Generalized Orienteering Problem.- An Integer Linear Programming Local Search for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems.- Robust Branch-Cut-and-Price Algorithms for Vehicle Routing Problems.- Recent Models and Algorithms for One-to-One Pickup and Delivery Problems.- One-to-Many-to-One Single Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problems.- Challenges and Opportunities in Attended Home Delivery.- Chvátal-Gomory Rank-1 Cuts Used in a Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Vehicle Routing Problems with Inter-Tour Resource Constraints.- From Single-Objective to Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems: Motivations, Case Studies, and Methods.- Practical Applications.- Vehicle Routing for Small Package Delivery and Pickup Services.- Advances in Meter Reading: Heuristic Solution of the Close Enough Traveling Salesman Problem over a Street Network.- Multiperiod Planning and Routing on a Rolling Horizon for Field Force Optimization Logistics.- Health Care Logistics, Emergency Preparedness, and Disaster Relief: New Challenges for Routing Problems with a Focus on the Austrian Situation.- Vehicle Routing Problems and Container Terminal Operations – An Update of Research.