| Article ID: | iaor20084288 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 177 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 649 |
| End Page Number: | 672 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Salhi Sad, Nagy Gbor |
| Keywords: | vehicle routing & scheduling, combinatorial optimization, heuristics |
This paper is a survey of location–routing: a relatively new branch of locational analysis that takes into account vehicle routing aspects. We propose a classification scheme and look at a number of problem variants. Both exact and heuristic algorithms are investigated. Finally, some suggestions for future research are presented.