The thesis is comprised of topics dealing with variations of the pickup and delivery problem (PDP), a subfield of commercial transportation problems. The research on PDPs has been advanced thematically and methodologically by studying new topics and developing extensions of existing algorithms...

Bernard Gendron and Operations Research -- Methodological Developments -- Variable Neighbourhood Search with Dynamic Exploration for the Set Union Knapsack Problem -- Common-Flow Formulations for the Diameter Constrained Spanning Tree Problem -- Models and Methods for Two-Level Uncapacitated...