{"product_id":"the-vehicle-routing-problem-latest-advances-and-new-challenges-operations-researchcomputer-science-interfaces-series-43-0387777776","title":"The Vehicle Routing Problem: Latest Advances and New Challenges (Operations Research\/Computer Science Interfaces Series, 43)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0387777776\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Golden, Bruce L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheoretical 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 paper appeared, work in the ?eld has exploded dramatically. Today, a Google Scholar search of the words vehicle routing problem (VRP) yields more than 21,700 entries. The June 2006 issue of OR\/MS Today provided a survey of 17 vendors of commercial routing software whose packages are currently capable of solving average-size problems with 1,000 stops, 50 routes, and two-hour hard-time windows in two to ten minutes [2]. In practice, vehicle routing may be the single biggest success story in operations research. For example, each day 103,500 drivers at UPS follow computer-generated routes. The drivers visit 7. 9 million customers and handle an average of 15. 6 million packages [3].\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51823737766176,"sku":"NEW0387777776","price":639.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71emQZhb1iL.jpg?v=1781201551","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-vehicle-routing-problem-latest-advances-and-new-challenges-operations-researchcomputer-science-interfaces-series-43-0387777776","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}