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The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges.
Bruce L. Golden
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Description for The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges.
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Theoretical research and practical applications in the ?eld of vehicle routing started in 1959 with the truck dispatching problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser [1]: ?nd the “. . . optimum routing of a ?eet of gasoline delivery trucks between a bulk terminal and a large number of service stations supplied by the terminal. ” Using a method based on a linear programming formulation, their hand calculations produced a near-optimal solution with four routes to aproblemwithtwelve service stations. The authorsproclaimed:“Nopractical applications of the method have been made as yet. ” In the nearly 50 years since the Dantzig and Ramser ... Read more
Theoretical research and practical applications in the ?eld of vehicle routing started in 1959 with the truck dispatching problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser [1]: ?nd the “. . . optimum routing of a ?eet of gasoline delivery trucks between a bulk terminal and a large number of service stations supplied by the terminal. ” Using a method based on a linear programming formulation, their hand calculations produced a near-optimal solution with four routes to aproblemwithtwelve service stations. The authorsproclaimed:“Nopractical applications of the method have been made as yet. ” In the nearly 50 years since the Dantzig and Ramser ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
591
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
591
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387777771
SKU
V9780387777771
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Reviews for The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges.
From the reviews: "The routing of vehicles with limited capacities for carrying goods or people is one of the major problems in transport logistics. … The book is clearly structured and mostly well written. I can recommend it to any reader who wants to deepen his or her understanding of vehicle routing problems. … the book is not ... Read more