Cross-docking is a new warehousing policy in logistics which is widely used all over the world and attracts many researchers attention to study about in last decade. In the literature, economic aspects has been often studied, while one of the most significant factors for being successful in the...

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) has recently piqued the interest of researchers seeking to improve the efficiency and efficacy of the transportation system in distributing commodities. Many scholars have proposed using a heterogeneous fleet in vehicle routing to minimize distribution costs...

The NP-hard Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is central in the optimisation of distribution networks. Its main objective is to determine a set of vehicle trips of minimum total cost. The ideal schedule will efficiently exploit the company's recourses, service all customers and satisfy the given...

Purpose: the distribution routing plans of multi-depots vehicle scheduling problem will increase exponentially along with the adding of customers. So, it becomes an important studying trend to solve the vehicle scheduling problem with heuristic algorithm. On the basis of building the model of...