The procurement of transportation services via large-scale combinatorial auctions involves a couple of complex decisions whose outcome highly influences the performance of the tender process. This paper examines the shipper's task of selecting a subset of the submitted bids which efficiently...

Purpose – To propose and to evaluate a new genetic algorithm (GA) for solving the dynamic pickup and delivery problem with time windows (DPDPTW). Design/methodology/approach – First, a grouping genetic algorithm (GGA) for the (static) PDPTW is described. In order to solve the dynamic...