# Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://picoportal.org/library/topics/vehicle-routing-optimization-methods/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 867,523 |
| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and its variants, including topics such as heuristic algorithms, tabu search, dynamic programming, metaheuristics, time windows, large-scale optimization, green logistics, multi-depot routing, and hybrid algorithms. The research covers a wide range of optimization techniques and applications in transportation and logistics. |
| Domain | Physical Sciences |
| Field | Engineering |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/T10567 |
| Works | 51,670 |

## Topic researchers

Showing 12 of 20.

- [George Davey Smith](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/george-davey-smith/)
- [Stephen Boyd](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/stephen-boyd/)
- [Marco Dorigo](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/marco-dorigo/)
- [Peter J. Rousseeuw](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/peter-j-rousseeuw/)
- [Richard Bellman](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/richard-bellman/)
- [Xin‐She Yang](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/xin-she-yang/)
- [David S. Johnson](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/david-s-johnson-2/)
- [Adi Shamir](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/adi-shamir/)
- [C. L. Philip Chen](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/c-l-philip-chen/)
- [Amir H. Gandomi](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/amir-h-gandomi/)
- [Richard M. Karp](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/richard-m-karp/)
- [Fred Glover](https://picoportal.org/library/researchers/fred-glover/)

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Source: PICO Portal — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://picoportal.org/library/sources/ for provenance and https://picoportal.org/library/methodology/ for what these figures mean.