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Vehicle Routing for Small Package Delivery and Pickup Services

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The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges

Part of the book series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces ((ORCS,volume 43))

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Small package shipping is a vital component of national and international transportation. This chapter gives an overview of such services by discussing the operations of a “typical” service day. We compare and contrast the characteristics of the routing problem encountered in small package shipping with the classical vehicle routing problem. The discussion of these routing issues also leads us to describe several new variants and offshoots of the classical vehicle routing problem that may be of interest to researchers.

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  1. UPS, 2311 York Road, Timonium, MD 21093

    Richard T. Wong

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Bruce Golden  & S. Raghavan  & 

  2. American University, Washington, DC, USA

    Edward Wasil

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Wong, R.T. (2008). Vehicle Routing for Small Package Delivery and Pickup Services. 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_21

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