The Evolution of the Vehicle Routing Problem—A Survey of VRP Research and Practice from 2005 to 2022

We identify 135 articles published in scholarly, academic journals from January 2005 to June 2022 that survey various aspects of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) ranging from exact and heuristic solution methods to new problem variants such as drone routing to new research areas such as green routing. We catalog and classify these articles, make key observations about publication history and overall contributions, and identify trends in VRP research and practice. Our book should be valuable to researchers and practioners with ongoing or unfolding research efforts into the VRP.