A vehicle scheduling problem with fixed trips and time limitations

Lean road transportation – a systematic method for the improvement of road transport operations

“…Jemai et al, 2013;Kumar et al, 2012;Boudia et al, 2008;Chiu et al, 2006;Zhong et al, 2007), vehicle scheduling (e.g. Zhang et al, 2014;Eliiyi et al, 2009), and transportation problems (e.g. Yu et al, 2015;Lau et al, 2009), among others.…”

Improving road transport operations through lean thinking: a case study

“…Other approaches, as previously discussed, have included the development of advanced tools or models based on mathematical modelling, operations research or simulation methods to improve efficiency through the optimisation of cost, time, distance, resource utilisation, routes, or transportation/delivery schedules. Examples of recent works in these areas include Yu et al (2015), Zhang et al (2014), Jemai et al (2013), Eliiyi et al (2009), among others.…”

“…Under these, several classical transportation problems that include the vehicle scheduling problem (e.g. Zhang et al, 2014;Eliiyi et al, 2009), the delivery problem (e.g. Urban, 2006;Mitrovic-Minic et al, 2004), the transportation problem (e.g.…”

Simulation-Based Analysis of Fitness Landscape in Optimisation

“…Vehicle scheduling problems (VSP) present a class of problems that are aimed at assigning a set of scheduled trips to a set of vehicles, in such a way, that each trip is associated with one vehicle, and a cost function for all trips is minimized [8,9]. This problem is often modified with additional constraints, like time windows, different truck capacity, etc.…”

“…integer programming, combinatorial methods, heuristics. However, all ready solutions can be applied only for special problem cases and are not usable in many real life problems [8].…”