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Scheduling often plays an important role in vehicle routing. This paper describes several applications in which the author has been involved in recent years. These arise in the dial-a-ride problem, speed optimization in routing problems, the pollution-routing problem, long-haul vehicle routing and scheduling with working hour rules, and synchronization in arc routing.
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This work was partly funded by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council under grant 39682-10. This support is gratefully acknowledged. The author thanks several of his coauthors who have taken part in the projects described in this study: Tolga Bektas, François Bellavance, Gerardo Berbeglia, Jean-François Cordeau, Emrah Demir, Kjetil Fagerholt, Lars Magnus Hvattum, André Langevin, Inge Norstad, Julie Paquette, Marta M.B. Pascoal, Marie-Ève Rancourt and Angélica M. Salazar-Aguilar. Thanks are also due to Ola Jabali who kindly commented on an earlier version of the manuscript, and to the referees for their valuable comments.
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Laporte, G. Scheduling issues in vehicle routing. Ann Oper Res 236, 463–474 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-013-1423-3
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