Rollout algorithms are effective heuristics for the single vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands (VRPSD), a prototypical model of logistics under uncertainty. However, they can be computational intensive. To reduce their run time, we introduce a novel approach to approximate the...

The extant literature on the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands indicates that restocking yields moderate percentage expected cost reductions relative to the a priori approach, but lacks theoretical support for this improvement. We conduct a worst-case analysis that corroborates the...