Our paper presents a new optimization method for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW). The VRPTW is a generalization of the Vehicle Routing Problem, where the service of a customer ...

The problem belongs to the class of rollon–rolloff vehicle routing problems (RR-VRPs), though some characteristics of the case study, such as the free circulation of containers and the limited ...

Classic NP-hard problems, such as workforce optimization and inventory management, share this characteristic. A useful analogy is the Rubik's Cube puzzle.

Routing problems are not inherent to the shipping industry, and the scientists confirmed that their findings could easily be transferred to any vehicle optimization problem that has time ...

Ford is bullish about EVs. It's ramping up production and investing billions of dollars. But the automaker is having a hard time moving its inventory of Mach-E and Lightning EVs. Ford dealerships ...