Maknoon, YousefLaporte, Gilbert2016-09-152016-09-152016-09-15201610.1016/j.cor.2016.08.007https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/129358WOS:000384855000019The vehicle routing problem with cross-dock selection is a variant of the vehicle routing problem containing spatial and load synchronization constraints by which products are transferred and processed via at least one cross-dock. This paper presents a mathematical formulation of the problem and an adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic. Computational experiments on a set of benchmark instances demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methodology. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Vehicle routingCross-dockingAdaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS)text::journal::journal article::research article