An assign-and-route matheuristic for the time-dependent inventory routing problem

In this paper, we consider a variant of the Inventory Routing Problem (IRP), the Time-Dependent IRP (TD-IRP). The TD-IRP extends the routing component of the IRP by making the travelling time between two locations no longer constant but depending on the departure time. In order to investigate the relevance of considering time-dependent travelling time functions, a set of new benchmark instances based on real-data is assumed. Numerical...