Bhusiri, Narath; Qureshi, Ali Gul; Taniguchi, Eiichi - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 62 (2014) C, pp. 1-22
This paper introduces the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (VRPSTW) in which problem definition differs from ones previously defined in literature. Branch-and-price approach is employed, resulting in a set partitioning master problem and its new subproblem. Novel techniques are...