When considering long-haul transport requests, the durations of rest periods and breaks highly influence the overall time needed for fulfillment. In the European Union, Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 defines the rules for the number, duration and time intervals when rest periods and breaks have to...

Since April 2007 working hours of truck drivers in the European Union are regulated by regulation (EC) No 561/2006. According to the new regulations, road transport undertakings must organise the work of drivers in a way that drivers are able to comply with the regulations and can be made liable...

In April 2007 new legal rules concerning the driving and working hours of truck drivers have become valid in all member countries of the European Union. In the study of Christoph Manuel Meyer the dispatchers’ problem of combined vehicle routing and break scheduling is modelled and solved using...