Kharazmi University International Journal of Supply and Operations Management 23831359 2 2 2015 08 01 Multiple Criteria Decision Making Combined with VRP: A Categorized Bibliographic Study 798 820 2588 10.22034/2015.2.07 EN Yahia Zare Mehrjerdi Department of Industrial engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran Journal Article 2015 06 30 In this research author reviews references related to the topic of multi criterion (goal programming, multiple objective linear and nonlinear programming, bi-criterion programming, Multi Attribute Decision Making, Compromise Programming, Surrogate Worth Trade-off Method) and various versions of vehicle routing problem (VRP), Multi depot VRP (MDVRP), VRP with time windows (VRPWTW), Stochastic VRP (SVRP), Capacitated VRP (CVRP), Fuzzy VRP (FVRP), Location VRP (LVRP), Backhauling VRP(BHVRP), Facility Location VRP (FLVRP), and Inventory control VRP (ICVRP). Although, VRP is a research area with rich research works and powerful researchers there found only 81 articles that relates various vehicle routing type problems with various multiple objectives techniques. This author found that there is no research done in some areas of VRP (i.e., FVRP, ICVRP, LRP and CVRP). It is interesting to see that this research area was completely an unattractive to master students (with zero research reported) and a somewhat attractive area to doctoral students (with 6 researches reported). Among the many multi criterion programming techniques available only three of them (goal programming, bi-criterion programming, linear and nonlinear multi objective programming) are being employed to solve the problem. Vehicle routing problem Multiple objective programming Multi Attribute Decision Making Heuristics Meta-heuristic Decision making http://www.ijsom.com/article_2588_dec27cc533ec6641b1f957a08268ddb9.pdf