A Decision Support System (DSS) for the heuristic allocation and routing of vehicles in urban freight transportation

Solve a strategic operational problem for a company, requires mathematical modeling and computing power, therefore, it requires computational tools that contribute to decision support system (DSS). Keywords: Decision Support System, urban freight transportation, large-scale optimization, vehicle routing problem, heuristics, metaheuristics. 1.Introduction All production and distribution companies have problems associated with logistics operation and distribution. To contribute to this very important real-life combinatorial optimization problem, we propose the design and development of a decision support system (DSS). [...]Section 4 presents a case of real-world DSS application. 2.