Tactical planning vehicle routing with call-in customers
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During the tactical planning of multi-period vehicle routing operations, dispatchers must incorporate enough flexibility in their routing plans to accommodate potential customers who have not yet called in to place their order. We develop an Adaptive Robust Optimization framework to address this challenging problem and solve instances to guaranteed optimality.
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