This paper introduces and illustrates an efficient algorithm, called the sweep algorithm, for solving medium- as well as large-scale vehicle-dispatch problems with load and distance constraints for ...

Zvi Drezner, The p-Centre Problem-Heuristic and Optimal Algorithms, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 35, No. 8 (Aug., 1984), pp. 741-748 ...

For the routing, we have utilized a heuristic search algorithm which first, generates a number of full routing paths. For example it generates 500 full routing paths.