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Solomon VRPTW instances

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Standard problem instances for routing, scheduling and integer programming, and test functions for metaheuristics.

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Names searched for: Solomon instances, Solomon benchmark, Solomon's instances, Solomon's benchmark

Key findings#

  • From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 30 archived papers mentioned Solomon VRPTW instances in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Nov 2023 (3).
  • No paper of the tracked journals mentioned Solomon VRPTW instances in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
  • From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Solomon VRPTW instances was mentioned in 45 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (33), AI (11) and information systems (1).
  • 8 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
  • Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Eindhoven University of Technology (3), KU Leuven (3) and Central South University (2).
  • The journals publishing most of them were European Journal of Operational Research (5), Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies (4) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (4).
  • The most-cited of them is “A branch-and-price algorithm for the heterogeneous fleet green vehicle routing problem with time windows” (Transportation Research Part B Methodological, 2019), with 160 citations.
  • Papers use Solomon VRPTW instances most often with International Energy Agency (IEA) (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
TrendNov 23–Oct 24Nov 24–Oct 25Nov 25–Oct 2636 months
791430

Papers per year#

2017: 1 paper2018: 0 papers2019: 6 papers2020: 2 papers2021: 1 paper2022: 4 papers2023: 4 papers2024: 6 papers2025: 8 papers2026 (so far): 13 papers
20172026 (so far)
Papers per publication year and category
Category2017201820192020202120222023202420252026 (so far)
Operations Research10310325711
AI0031112111
Information Systems0000000001
All categories10621446813

Where the papers come from#

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#InstitutionPapers
1Eindhoven University of Technology3
2KU Leuven3
3Central South University2
4HEC Montréal2
5Tianjin University2
6Aalborg University1
7Amazon (United States)1
8Aston University1
9Athens University of Economics and Business1
10Beihang University1
Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#CountryPapers
1China9
2United Kingdom5
3Netherlands5
4Canada4
5Belgium3
6Germany3
7United States3
8Austria2
9Singapore2
10United Arab Emirates1
Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#KeywordPapers
1vehicle routing9
2last-mile delivery7
3branch-price-and-cut5
4time windows5
5vehicle routing problem with time windows4
6Solomon benchmark instances3
7branch-and-price3
8capacitated vehicle routing problem3
9hybrid metaheuristic3
10CO2 emissions2

Most-cited papers#

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use Solomon VRPTW instances most often with International Energy Agency (IEA) (3); it has 1 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy…. The whole network →

What papers use Solomon VRPTW instances together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used withTypePapers using bothLift
International Energy Agency (IEA)Dataset33.4
Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Solomon VRPTW instances. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/solomon-vrptw-instances

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Solomon VRPTW instances},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/solomon-vrptw-instances}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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