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ROUTE 2007: Recent advances in vehicle routing optimization
Author(s) -
Erera Alan L.,
Savelsbergh Martin W. P.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.977
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1097-0037
pISSN - 0028-3045
DOI - 10.1002/net.20329
Subject(s) - atlanta , supply chain , operations research , computer science , library science , engineering management , engineering , business , history , archaeology , marketing , metropolitan area
ROUTE 2007, an International Workshop on Vehicle Routing, Intermodal Transport, and Related Areas, was held at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel on historic Jekyll Island on the coast of South Georgia, between May 14th and May 16th, 2007. The workshop was supported by The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and was the fourth in the ROUTE series, previously hosted in 2000 and 2003 by the Technical University of Denmark and in 2005 by the University of Bologna. The workshop was designed to provide a forum for scientific exchange and cooperation in the fields of vehicle routing and intermodal transportation, and brought together about 40 prominent scholars to discuss research trends and their most recent and relevant work. The 26 presentations covered classical as well as emerging problems in the field: from branch-and-cut-and-price algorithms for the capacitated vehicle routing problem to continuous approximation algorithms for time slot management for home delivery. The level of the presentations was consistently high, which made it easy for us to accept the kind invitation of Bruce Golden to collect some of the presented material in the form of a special issue for Networks. The resulting special issue includes a selection of nine articles that highlight some of the more interesting ideas presented at the workshop, focusing specifically on the research on variants of vehicle routing problems. At the workshop, we observed that much of the current research on routing is oriented toward improving the practical applicability of routing research. A number of researchers presented work that focuses on stochastic and/or dynamic variants of routing problems which often represent better models of the operational environment faced by routing decision makers. Other researchers focused on problem variants