Jarrah, A I; Bard, J F - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 62 (2011) 10, pp. 1827-1843
This paper addresses the problem of partitioning a local service region into nonoverlapping work areas in which pickups and deliveries are made throughout the day. For a fleet of homogeneous vehicles, a given set of customers, and expected demand for service, the objective is to find the least...