Gilbert Laporte

61.9k total citations · 19 hit papers
661 papers, 42.0k citations indexed

About

Gilbert Laporte is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilbert Laporte has authored 661 papers receiving a total of 42.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 503 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 208 papers in Automotive Engineering and 155 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Gilbert Laporte's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (419 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (198 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (166 papers). Gilbert Laporte is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (419 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (198 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (166 papers). Gilbert Laporte collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and Italy. Gilbert Laporte's co-authors include Jean‐François Cordeau, Michel Gendreau, Tolga Bektaş, Frédéric Semet, Ola Jabali, Emrah Demir, Yves Nobert, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, François Louveaux and Hélène Mercure and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Management Science and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Gilbert Laporte

647 papers receiving 39.8k citations

Hit Papers

The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and app... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 2011 2009 1992 1997 250 500 750 1000
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The vehicle routing problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms
    1992 1.1k citations Gilbert Laporte European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  2. The Pollution-Routing Problem
    2011 834 citations Tolga Bektaş, Gilbert Laporte profile →
  3. Fifty Years of Vehicle Routing
    2009 652 citations Gilbert Laporte Transportation Science profile →
  4. The traveling salesman problem: An overview of exact and approximate algorithms
    1992 608 citations Gilbert Laporte European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  5. A tabu search heuristic for periodic and multi-depot vehicle routing problems
    1997 599 citations Michel Gendreau, Gilbert Laporte et al. Networks profile →
  6. The dial-a-ride problem: models and algorithms
    2007 577 citations Jean‐François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte Annals of Operations Research profile →
  7. An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the Pollution-Routing Problem
    2012 542 citations Emrah Demir, Tolga Bektaş et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  8. A review of recent research on green road freight transportation
    2014 539 citations Emrah Demir, Tolga Bektaş et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  9. Ambulance location and relocation models
    2003 530 citations Gilbert Laporte, Frédéric Semet et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  10. Static pickup and delivery problems: a classification scheme and survey
    2007 526 citations Jean‐François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte et al. profile →
  11. Dynamic pickup and delivery problems
    2009 481 citations Jean‐François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  12. Classical and modern heuristics for the vehicle routing problem
    2000 471 citations Gilbert Laporte, Michel Gendreau et al. profile →
  13. A tabu search heuristic for the static multi-vehicle dial-a-ride problem
    2003 456 citations Jean‐François Cordeau, Gilbert Laporte profile →
  14. Stochastic vehicle routing
    1996 453 citations Michel Gendreau, Gilbert Laporte et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  15. A guide to vehicle routing heuristics
    2002 381 citations Gilbert Laporte, Frédéric Semet et al. profile →
  16. The bi-objective Pollution-Routing Problem
    2013 346 citations Emrah Demir, Tolga Bektaş et al. European Journal of Operational Research profile →
  17. Drone-aided routing: A literature review
    2020 342 citations Giusy Macrina, Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese et al. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies profile →
  18. A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for a Vendor-Managed Inventory-Routing Problem
    2007 311 citations Gilbert Laporte et al. Transportation Science profile →
  19. The time-dependent pollution-routing problem
    2013 298 citations Tolga Bektaş, Gilbert Laporte et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gilbert Laporte Canada 106 30.8k 16.1k 11.5k 7.5k 5.1k 661 42.0k
Michel Gendreau Canada 78 18.6k 0.6× 8.6k 0.5× 6.0k 0.5× 3.6k 0.5× 2.2k 0.4× 407 27.0k
Paolo Toth Italy 64 13.3k 0.4× 3.6k 0.2× 2.6k 0.2× 3.2k 0.4× 825 0.2× 180 17.4k
Martin Savelsbergh United States 61 8.8k 0.3× 5.6k 0.3× 3.9k 0.3× 2.4k 0.3× 589 0.1× 230 14.0k
Teodor Gabriel Crainic Canada 57 9.5k 0.3× 3.4k 0.2× 4.9k 0.4× 3.4k 0.5× 927 0.2× 272 12.9k
George L. Nemhauser United States 58 9.5k 0.3× 1.7k 0.1× 1.4k 0.1× 2.1k 0.3× 1.7k 0.3× 199 22.7k
Jean‐François Cordeau Canada 56 9.3k 0.3× 4.3k 0.3× 3.6k 0.3× 2.4k 0.3× 1.2k 0.2× 185 12.0k
Bruce Golden United States 63 8.3k 0.3× 3.4k 0.2× 2.5k 0.2× 1.2k 0.2× 1.0k 0.2× 296 14.1k
Jean‐Yves Potvin Canada 45 6.9k 0.2× 3.3k 0.2× 2.2k 0.2× 1.1k 0.1× 441 0.1× 117 10.2k
Richard F. Hartl Austria 55 6.5k 0.2× 3.3k 0.2× 2.4k 0.2× 973 0.1× 504 0.1× 232 11.6k
Reza Tavakkoli‐Moghaddam Iran 67 8.7k 0.3× 1.1k 0.1× 1.8k 0.2× 870 0.1× 1.9k 0.4× 759 18.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhen, Lu, et al.. (2025). Optimizing an On-Demand Delivery Mode Based on Trucks and Drones. Transportation Science. 59(5). 1008–1031. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuaian, et al.. (2024). Determinism versus uncertainty: Examining the worst-case expected performance of data-driven policies. European Journal of Operational Research. 318(1). 242–252. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Yiwei, Shuaian Wang, Lu Zhen, & Gilbert Laporte. (2023). Integrating operations research into green logistics: A review. Frontiers of Engineering Management. 10(3). 517–533. 26 indexed citations
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Macrina, Giusy, Luigi Di Puglia Pugliese, Francesca Guerriero, & Gilbert Laporte. (2020). Drone-aided routing: A literature review. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies. 120. 102762–102762. 342 indexed citations breakdown →
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Salazar–Aguilar, M. Angélica, et al.. (2015). The multi-vehicle cumulative covering tour problem. Annals of Operations Research. 258(2). 761–780. 21 indexed citations
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Jabali, Ola, Walter Rei, Michel Gendreau, & Gilbert Laporte. (2014). Partial-route inequalities for the multi-vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 177. 121–136. 39 indexed citations
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Demir, Emrah, Tolga Bektaş, & Gilbert Laporte. (2012). An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the Pollution-Routing Problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 223(2). 346–359. 542 indexed citations breakdown →
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Laporte, Gilbert, Federico Perea, Francisco A. Ortega, & Juan A. Mesa. (2010). Planning Rapid Transit Networks. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 1–21. 1 indexed citations
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Erdoğan, Güneş, Erhan Erkut, Ármann Ingólfsson, & Gilbert Laporte. (2009). Scheduling Ambulance Crews for Maximum Coverage. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Røpke, Stefan, Jean‐François Cordeau, & Gilbert Laporte. (2007). Models and branch‐and‐cut algorithms for pickup and delivery problems with time windows. Networks. 49(4). 258–272. 231 indexed citations
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Cordeau, Jean‐François & Gilbert Laporte. (2006). The Dial-a-Ride Problem: Models and Algorithms. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–26. 5 indexed citations
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Laporte, Gilbert, Shoshana Anily, & Michel Gendreau. (2005). The Preemptive Swapping Problem on a Tree. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–22. 3 indexed citations
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Gendreau, Michel, Gilbert Laporte, & Frédéric Semet. (2003). Heuristics and lower bounds for the bin packing problem with conflicts. Computers & Operations Research. 31(3). 347–358. 90 indexed citations
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Cordeau, Jean‐François & Gilbert Laporte. (2002). A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Static Multi-Vehicle Dial-a-Ride Problem. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1–20. 4 indexed citations
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Laporte, Gilbert, et al.. (2002). An Integer L-Shaped Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. Operations Research. 50(3). 415–423. 204 indexed citations
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Cordeau, Jean‐François & Gilbert Laporte. (2002). The Dial-a-Ride Problem: Variants, Modeling Issues and Algorithms. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–16. 19 indexed citations
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Eiselt, H. A., Michel Gendreau, & Gilbert Laporte. (1993). Maximizing pedestrian flow in shopping center layout. Computers & Operations Research. 1 indexed citations
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Hertz, Alain, Gilbert Laporte, & Michel Gendreau. (1991). A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–36. 8 indexed citations
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Laporte, Gilbert. (1987). Location-Routing Problems. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–66. 176 indexed citations
20.
Laporte, Gilbert, et al.. (1982). Examination Timetabling by Computer. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–20.

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