Michael Drexl

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Drexl is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Drexl has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 15 papers in Automotive Engineering and 12 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Michael Drexl's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (23 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (15 papers) and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (10 papers). Michael Drexl is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (23 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (15 papers) and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (10 papers). Michael Drexl collaborates with scholars based in Germany and Canada. Michael Drexl's co-authors include Michael Schneider, Stefan Irnich, Timo Gschwind, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Guy Desaulniers, Nicola Bianchessi, Frank Meisel and Julia Rieck and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, European Journal of Operational Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In The Last Decade

Michael Drexl

22 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Synchronization in Vehicle Routing—A Survey of VRPs with ... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2014 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. Synchronization in Vehicle Routing—A Survey of VRPs with Multiple Synchronization Constraints
    2012 357 citations Michael Drexl Transportation Science profile →
  2. A survey of variants and extensions of the location-routing problem
    2014 328 citations Michael Drexl, Michael Schneider European Journal of Operational Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Drexl Germany 16 1.2k 633 610 193 180 23 1.4k
Jens Lysgaard Denmark 12 1.3k 1.1× 668 1.1× 432 0.7× 89 0.5× 187 1.0× 25 1.5k
Nilson Herazo-Padilla Colombia 7 805 0.7× 449 0.7× 431 0.7× 70 0.4× 172 1.0× 12 1.0k
Enrique Benavent Spain 18 1.3k 1.0× 541 0.9× 530 0.9× 157 0.8× 247 1.4× 30 1.6k
J-F Cordeau Canada 8 1.3k 1.1× 619 1.0× 416 0.7× 74 0.4× 119 0.7× 9 1.5k
José-Manuel Belenguer Spain 12 1.0k 0.8× 497 0.8× 454 0.7× 135 0.7× 214 1.2× 14 1.3k
Gábor Nagy United Kingdom 16 1.6k 1.3× 588 0.9× 746 1.2× 417 2.2× 139 0.8× 28 1.8k
Stefan Schwerdfeger Germany 13 668 0.5× 644 1.0× 600 1.0× 61 0.3× 191 1.1× 27 1.2k
I‐Ming Chao Taiwan 9 968 0.8× 429 0.7× 300 0.5× 91 0.5× 118 0.7× 13 1.2k
Maria Battarra United Kingdom 19 714 0.6× 365 0.6× 301 0.5× 76 0.4× 171 0.9× 35 1.0k
Sin C. Ho Hong Kong 15 839 0.7× 919 1.5× 569 0.9× 76 0.4× 634 3.5× 23 1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Drexl

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Drexl, Michael. (2020). On the one-to-one pickup-and-delivery problem with time windows and trailers. Central European Journal of Operations Research. 29(3). 1115–1162. 6 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael. (2020). On efficient testing of capacity constraints in pickup-and-delivery problems with trailers. 4OR. 19(2). 289–307. 1 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael, et al.. (2019). Nested branch-and-price-and-cut for vehicle routing problems with multiple resource interdependencies. European Journal of Operational Research. 276(2). 549–565. 12 indexed citations
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Gschwind, Timo & Michael Drexl. (2019). Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search with a Constant-Time Feasibility Test for the Dial-a-Ride Problem. Transportation Science. 53(2). 480–491. 66 indexed citations
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Bianchessi, Nicola, Michael Drexl, & Stefan Irnich. (2019). The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Customer Inconvenience Constraints. Transportation Science. 53(4). 1067–1084. 27 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael, et al.. (2018). Branch-and-Price-and-Cut for the Truck-and-Trailer Routing Problem with Time Windows. Transportation Science. 52(5). 1174–1190. 36 indexed citations
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Bianchessi, Nicola, et al.. (2017). Branch-and-Price-and-Cut for the Active-Passive Vehicle-Routing Problem. Transportation Science. 52(2). 300–319. 36 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael, et al.. (2016). Branch-and-price-and-cut for a service network design and hub location problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 255(3). 935–947. 32 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael & Michael Schneider. (2014). A survey of variants and extensions of the location-routing problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 241(2). 283–308. 328 indexed citations breakdown →
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Drexl, Michael, et al.. (2013). Simultaneous Vehicle and Crew Routing and Scheduling for Partial- and Full-Load Long-Distance Road Transport. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(2). 242–264. 1 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael. (2013). Branch‐and‐cut algorithms for the vehicle routing problem with trailers and transshipments. Networks. 63(1). 119–133. 39 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael. (2013). A note on the separation of subtour elimination constraints in elementary shortest path problems. European Journal of Operational Research. 229(3). 595–598. 7 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael. (2012). Synchronization in Vehicle Routing—A Survey of VRPs with Multiple Synchronization Constraints. Transportation Science. 46(3). 297–316. 357 indexed citations breakdown →
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Drexl, Michael. (2012). Applications of the vehicle routing problem with trailers and transshipments. European Journal of Operational Research. 227(2). 275–283. 78 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael. (2012). Rich vehicle routing in theory and practice. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 5(1-2). 47–63. 55 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael & Stefan Irnich. (2012). Solving elementary shortest-path problems as mixed-integer programs. OR Spectrum. 36(2). 281–296. 13 indexed citations
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Drexl, Michael. (2011). Branch-and-price and heuristic column generation for the generalized truck-and-trailer routing problem. Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa. 12(12). 5–38. 41 indexed citations
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Desaulniers, Guy, et al.. (2010). European Driver Rules in Vehicle Routing with Time Windows. Transportation Science. 44(4). 455–473. 73 indexed citations
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Desaulniers, Guy, et al.. (2009). European Driver Rules in Vehicle Routing with Time Windows. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 1–29.
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Drexl, Michael, et al.. (2007). On some generalized routing problems. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 19(7). 425–434. 42 indexed citations

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