2026 Richard F. Hartl: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	69	321	301	4	4	293	22124
Engineering and Technology	70	1020	962	3	3	298	23043

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Mathematics in Austria Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Richard F. Hartl is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and specializes in the field of Engineering. Their research predominantly focuses on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and Building and Construction, with additional contributions related to Economics and Econometrics as well as Transportation.

Their research topics include a variety of themes centered around optimization and transportation logistics. Key areas of work cover:

Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
Transportation Planning and Optimization
COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

"The collaborative consistent vehicle routing problem with workload balance," 2021, European Journal of Operational Research
"The optimal lockdown intensity for COVID-19," 2021, Journal of Mathematical Economics
"Shared resources in collaborative vehicle routing," 2020, Top
"Modeling the impact of product quality on dynamic pricing and advertising policies," 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
"The vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous locker boxes," 2021, Central European Journal of Operations Research

Frequent publication venues for Hartl's work include:

European Journal of Operational Research
SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Production Economics
Central European Journal of Operations Research
Transportation Science

Hartl collaborates regularly with several researchers, with frequent coauthors being:

Margaretha Gansterer
Peter M. Kort
Gustav Feichtinger
Andrea Seidl
Stefan Wrzaczek

Their work integrates elements of operational research, economics, and transportation systems engineering, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to addressing challenges in logistics, vehicle routing, and optimization under constraints such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

A NEW RANK BASED VERSION OF THE ANT SYSTEM: A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY

B Bullnheimer;R F Hartl;C Strauss

1460
Citations
A survey on pickup and delivery problems: Part II: Transportation between pickup and delivery locations

Sophie N. Parragh;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

1257
Citations
A survey of the maximum principles for optimal control problems with state constraints

Richard F. Hartl;Suresh P. Sethi;Raymond G. Vickson

1257
Citations
A survey on pickup and delivery problems

Sophie N. Parragh;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

1230
Citations
An improved Ant System algorithm for theVehicle Routing Problem

Bernd Bullnheimer;Richard F. Hartl;Christine Strauss

1148
Citations
Applying the ANT System to the Vehicle Routing Problem

Bernd Bullnheimer;Richard F. Hartl;Christine Strauss

718
Citations
Optimale Kontrolle ökonomischer Prozesse : Anwendungen des Maximumprinzips in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Gustav Feichtinger;Richard F. Hartl

655
Citations
The Electric Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Recharging Stations

Gerhard Hiermann;Jakob Puchinger;Jakob Puchinger;Stefan Ropke;Richard F. Hartl

636
Citations
Pareto Ant Colony Optimization: A metaheuristic approach to multiobjective portfolio selection

Karl F. Doerner;Walter J. Gutjahr;Richard F. Hartl;Christine Strauss

622
Citations
D-Ants: savings based ants divide and conquer the vehicle routing problem

Marc Reimann;Karl Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

589
Citations
Dynamic optimal control models in advertising: recent developments

Gustav Feichtinger;Richard F. Hartl;Suresh P. Sethi

562
Citations
A survey on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems

Ulrike Ritzinger;Jakob Puchinger;Richard F. Hartl

485
Citations
A variable neighborhood search heuristic for periodic routing problems

Vera C. Hemmelmayr;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

411
Citations
A Variable Neighborhood Search for the Multi Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

Michael Polacek;Richard F. Hartl;Karl Doerner;Marc Reimann

384
Citations
Collaborative vehicle routing: A survey

Margaretha Gansterer;Richard F. Hartl

333
Citations
Ant colony optimization for the two-dimensional loading vehicle routing problem

Guenther Fuellerer;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl;Manuel Iori

310
Citations
A bi-objective home care scheduling problem: Analyzing the trade-off between costs and client inconvenience

Kris Braekers;Kris Braekers;Richard F. Hartl;Sophie N. Parragh;Fabien Tricoire

308
Citations
Variable neighborhood search for the dial-a-ride problem

Sophie N. Parragh;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

279
Citations
Metaheuristics for vehicle routing problems with three-dimensional loading constraints

Guenther Fuellerer;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl;Manuel Iori

259
Citations
Heuristics for the multi-period orienteering problem with multiple time windows

Fabien Tricoire;Martin Romauch;Karl F. Doerner;Richard F. Hartl

249
Citations
Optimal control theory with economic applications: A. Seierstad and K. Sydsaeter North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1987, ix + 445 pages, Dfl150.00

Richard F. Hartl

36
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Kort Tilburg University

Gustav Feichtinger TU Wien

Karl F. Doerner University of Vienna

Thibaut Vidal Polytechnique Montréal

Jonathan P. Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University

Herbert Dawid Bielefeld University

Walter J. Gutjahr University of Vienna

Suresh P. Sethi The University of Texas at Dallas

Franz Wirl University of Vienna

Stefan Minner Technical University of Munich

External Links

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