Taxonomy for Rich Vehicle Routing Problems
Résumé
In recent years methodological progress and the development of computer technologies has led to an increasing academic attention to new variants of vehicle routing problems including more complex constraints and objectives. This trend is stimulated by the complex characteristics of real-life vehicle routing applications. The families of these extended problems are often called Rich Vehicle Routing Problems (RVRPs). In this paper we propose to elaborate a generic taxonomic framework for the RVRP literature and to give a general and relevant definition of RVRPs. To this end, several papers addressing different issues related to RVRPs are selected and classified on the basis of the taxonomy attributes. After that, a cluster analysis of the selected papers is provided and discussed leading to the definition of RVRPs.