Exact and heuristic algorithms for routing problems

This is a summary of the authors PhD thesis supervised by Daniele Vigo and defended on 30 March 2010, at the Università di Bologna. The thesis is written in English and is available from the author upon request. Several rich routing problems attaining to the transportation area have been studied. “Simple” algorithms have been proposed to solve them, both exact and heuristic, producing high quality solutions and transferrable methods.