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Research on Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows Restrictions

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The multi-objective optimization problem of vehicle routing is a hot issue in many industries in recent years, because it is more fully considered for real-world constraints and has always been a hot issue in shipping transport. Vehicle path planning issues with time window constraints are also the most concerned. Therefore, this paper presents a large number of papers on vehicle routing problem with time window limit, and details the application of various algorithms in this problem. In this paper, several novel and widely applied algorithms are introduced and compared.

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This research is partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (61773192, 61503170, 61603169, 61773246), Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (J17KZ005, J14LN28), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2016FL13, ZR2017BF039), Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration (Southeast University), Ministry of Education (K93-9-2017-02), and State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries (PAL-N201602).

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Han, YQ. et al. (2018). Research on Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows Restrictions. In: Huang, DS., Jo, KH., Zhang, XL. (eds) Intelligent Computing Theories and Application. ICIC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10955. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95933-7_84

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