×


 x 

Shopping cart
39%OFFBruce L. Golden - The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges.  - 9780387777771 - V9780387777771
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges.

€ 332.81
€ 202.14
You save € 130.67!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges. Hardcover. .
Theoretical research and practical applications in the ?eld of vehicle routing started in 1959 with the truck dispatching problem posed by Dantzig and Ramser [1]: ?nd the “. . . optimum routing of a ?eet of gasoline delivery trucks between a bulk terminal and a large number of service stations supplied by the terminal. ” Using a method based on a linear programming formulation, their hand calculations produced a near-optimal solution with four routes to aproblemwithtwelve service stations. The authorsproclaimed:“Nopractical applications of the method have been made as yet. ” In the nearly 50 years since the Dantzig and Ramser ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
591
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
591
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387777771
SKU
V9780387777771
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

Reviews for The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges.
From the reviews: "The routing of vehicles with limited capacities for carrying goods or people is one of the major problems in transport logistics. … The book is clearly structured and mostly well written. I can recommend it to any reader who wants to deepen his or her understanding of vehicle routing problems. … the book is not ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Vehicle Routing Problem. Latest Advances and New Challenges.


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!