Today's era is the era of Automobiles. The numbers of vehicles on the road are increasing rapidly. Drivers have a very little time to react while driving vehicle on a very high speed. So they need to be aware about the traffic conditions, accidents, road jams and other such emergencies. So Vehicular Ad Hoc Network can be used as a tool to improve the road safety by circulates the information. V...

Efficient and practical communications between large numbers of vehicles are critical in providing high level of safety and convenience to drivers. Crucial real-time information on road hazard, traffic conditions and driver services must be communicated to vehicles rapidly even in adverse environments, such as “urban canyons” and tunnels. We propose a novel routing protocol in vehicular network...

Recent developments in urbanization and e-commerce have pushed businesses to deploy efficient systems decrease their supply chain cost. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is one of the most widely used strategies effectively manage chains with multiple parties. VMI implementation asks for solving Routing Problem (IRP). This study considers a multi-product multi-period inventory routing problem, inc...

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is one of the most popular routing problems. In the CVRP, a fleet of capacitated vehicles located at a central depot are used to deliver products to a set of geographically dispersed customers with known demand. In this work, a new two-step approach to solve the CVRP with a heterogeneous fleet is proposed. In the first step; a balanced K-means clus...

Vehicle routing problems have various extensions such as time windows, multiple vehicles, backhauls, simultaneous delivery and pick-up, etc. The objectives of all these problems are to design optimal routes minimizing total distance traveled, minimizing number of vehicles, etc that satisfy corresponding constraints. In this study, an ant colony optimization based heuristic that can be used to s...

Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, are a specified class of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network, in which vehicles are nodes VANET provides interaction between vehicles and road sides units. VANET now-a-days is affecting a large area of research due to its wide range of applications and special characteristics like movements constraints, On board sensors, Unlimited battery power, high node mobility etc . The main is...

In smart transport techniques, the coordination between vehicles and the street area devices are of utmost importance. Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETS) truly are an encouraging technological innovation to permit the transmissions between vehicles using one side as well as in between vehicles and street area devices on the other side. But, it is really a difficult job to design an efficient rou...

One of the most important points in a supply chain is customer-driven modeling, which reduces the bullwhip effect in the supply chain, as well as the costs of investment on the inventory and efficient transshipment of the products. Their homogeneity is reflected in the inventory-routing problem, which is a combination of distribution and inventory management. This paper considers a multi object...

Customer relationship management is of high importance as it strengthens customer satisfaction. Providing consistent service cultivates retention and brand loyalty. This paper examines a new customer-oriented routing problem, the Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem with heterogeneous fleet. The objective to create cost-efficient plans, utilising fixed fleet vehicles operational characteristics, ...

This paper reports on the on-going development of a hybrid approach for dispatching and conflict-free routing of automated guided vehicles used for material handling in manufacturing. The approach combines Constraint Programming for scheduling and Mixed Integer Programming for routing without conflict. The objective of this work is to provide a reliable method for solving instances with a large...