Vehicle routing problems have drawn researchers’ attention for more than 50 years. Most approaches found in the literature address these problems using the so-called customer-based graph, a complete graph representing the road network, where a node is introduced for every …
© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Given a graph whose arc traversal times vary over time, the Time-Dependent Travelling Salesman Problem consists of finding a Hamiltonian tour of least total duration. In this paper we exploit some properties of the problem …
© 1990-2011 Beijing Institute of Aerospace Information.The time dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows (TDVRPTW) is considered. A multi-type ant system (MTAS) algorithm hybridized with the ant colony system (ACS) and the max-min ant system (MMAS) algorithms is proposed. …
© 2018 by the authors.This paper presents a new multi-objective model for a vehicle routing problem under a stochastic uncertainty. It considers traffic point as an inflection point to deal with the arrival time of vehicles. It aims to minimize …
Although the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) has been broadly addressed in the literature, most of the works consider constant travel times. This is a strong simplification that does not allow to correctly model real world applications. In fact, nowadays, travel …
Congestion in large cities and populated areas is one of the major challenges in urban logistics, and should be addressed at different planning and operational levels. The Time Dependent Travelling Salesman Problem (TDTSP) is a generalization of the well known …
This paper addresses a Green Time Dependent Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem that accounts for transportation emissions. The problem has been formulated and solved using Dynamic Programming approach. The applicability of Dynamic Programming in large sized problems is, however, limited due …
This paper considers a real operational problem of routing and scheduling a fleet of fuel supply vessels used to service customer ships anchored outside a major port. The problem can be formulated as a rich multi-trip vehicle routing problem, including …
In this paper, we introduce novel optimization methods for sequencing problems in which the setup times between a pair of tasks depend on the relative position of the tasks in the ordering. Our proposed methods rely on a hybrid approach …
The deterministic Traveling Purchaser Problem looks for a tour visiting a subset of markets in order to satisfy a positive discrete demand for some products at minimum traveling and purchasing costs. In this paper, we assume that the quantities available …