Ting, Chuan-Kang; Liao, Xin-Lan - In: International Journal of Production Economics 141 (2013) 1, pp. 199-211
The pickup and delivery problem addresses the real-world issues in logistic industry and establishes an important category of vehicle routing problems. The problem is to find the shortest route to collect and distribute commodities under the assumption that the total supply and the total demand...