This paper provides an indepth review on evolution of vehicle routing problems from savings matrix to time dependent vehicle routing problems. It is suggested that as to how VRPBH framework of Goetschalckx and Jacobs-Blecha has offered better solution to routing problems that Clarke-Wright Savings matrix and with the introduction of time -window concept the result of heuristic has improved dras...

Traditionally routing has focused on finding shortest paths in networks with positive, static edge costs representing the distance between two nodes. Energy-optimal routing for electric vehicles creates novel algorithmic challenges, as simply understanding edge costs as energy values and applying standard algorithms does not work. First, edge costs can be negative due to recuperation, excluding...

VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Network) is a new technology which has taken enormous attention in the recent years. Due to rapid topology changing and frequent disconnection makes it difficult to design an efficient routing protocol for routing data among vehicles, called V2V or vehicle to vehicle communication and vehicle to road side infrastructure, called V2I. The existing routing protocols for VAN...

General Optimization Methods Mathematical Programming, Constraint Programming, Heuristics Problem Specific Algorithms (Dynamic Programming, Branch and Bound) Scheduling Single and Parallel Machine Models Flow Shops and Flexible Flow Shops Job Shops Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Timetabling Interval Scheduling, Reservations Educational Timetabling Workforce and Employee Timetabling Tra...

The vehicle routing problem lies at the heart of distribution management. It is faced each day by thousands of companies and organizations engaged in the delivery and collection of goods or people. Because conditions vary from one setting to the next, the objectives and constraints encountered in practice are highly variable. Most algorithmic research and software development in this area focus...

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the most important combinational optimization problems that has nowadays received much attention because of its real application in industrial and service problems. The VRP involves routing a fleet of vehicles, each of them visiting a set of nodes such that every node is visited by exactly one vehicle only once. So, the objective is to minimize the to...

plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (phev) technology shows great interest in the recent scientificliteratures. vehicle-to-grid (v2g) is a interconnection of energy storage of phevs and grid. byimplementation of v2g dependencies of the power system on small expensive conventional units canbe reduced, resulting in reduced operational cost. this paper represents an intelligent unitcommitment (uc) wi...