Vehicle Routing Problem for Multiple Product Types, Compartments, and Trips with Soft Time Windows

Table 1

Comparison of the problems.

	VRP	VRPMC	VRPMT	VRPSTW	This study
Vehicle	Heter/homo	Single	Heter/homo	Heter/homo	Heter/homo
Compartment	Single	Multiple	Single	Single	Multiple
Trip	Single	Single	Multiple	Single	Multiple
Time window	Not considered	Not considered	Not considered	Considered	Considered