Scheduling Just-in-Time Transport Vehicles to Feed Parts for Mixed Model Assembly Lines

Table 1

Summary of related literature.

Researchers	Decision problem				Delivery strategy		Methodology
	Number and location of supermarket	Number and route of tow trains	Scheduling	Loading	JIT	Periodic	Exact	Heuristic	Metaheuristic
Emde and Boysen [7]	✓				✓		✓
Emde et al. [8]				✓	✓		✓
Vaidyanathan [9]		✓			✓			✓
Choi and Lee [10]		✓						✓
Emde [11]		✓	✓		✓		✓
Rao et al. [12]		✓			✓				GA and SA
Fathi [13]		✓					✓
Golz et al. [14]		✓				✓		✓
Muller [15]			✓					✓
Schneider and Emde [17]		✓				✓			LNS
Zhang et al. [18]			✓			✓		✓
Kilic et al. [19]			✓			✓		✓
Fathi et al. [20]			✓	✓		✓			PSO
Emde and Gendreau [21]			✓	✓	✓			✓

JIT, just-in-time; GA, genetic algorithm; SA, simulated annealing; LNS, large neighborhood search; PSO, particle swarm optimization.