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Parallel Solution Methods for Vehicle Routing Problems

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The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges

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Parallel solution methods contribute to efficiently address large and complex combinatorial optimization problems, vehicle routing problems in particular. Parallel exact and heuristic methods for VRP variants are increasingly being proposed, and the pace seems to increase in recent years. “New” strategies have been proposed and many of the best known solutions to classical formulations have thus been obtained. This chapter describes and discusses the main strategies used to parallelize exact and metaheuristic solution methods for vehicle routing problems. It also provides an up-to-date survey of contributions to this rapidly evolving field and points to a number of promising research directions.

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Crainic, T.G. (2008). Parallel Solution Methods for Vehicle Routing Problems. In: Golden, B., Raghavan, S., Wasil, E. (eds) The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces, vol 43. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77778-8_8

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