Green Transportation and New Advances in Vehicle Routing Problems

This book presents recent work that analyzes general issues of green transportation. The contributed chapters consider environmental objectives in transportation, including topics such as battery swap stations for electric vehicles, efficient home healthcare routing, waste collection, and various vehicle routing problems. 

New Advances in Vehicle Routing Problems: A Literature Review to Explore the Future.- A Robust Optimization for a Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling Problem Considering Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Stochastic Travel and Service Times.- A Skewed General Variable Neighborhood Search Approach for Solving the Battery Swap Station Location-Routing Problem with Capacitated Electric Vehicles.- The Cumulative Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Including Priority Indexes.- Solution of a Real-Life Vehicle Routing Problem with Meal Breaks and Shifts.- A Decomposition-Based Heuristic for a Waste Cooking Oil Collection Problem.- Time Dependent Green Vehicle Routing Problem.- Recent Developments in Real-Life Vehicle Routing Problem Applications.