This paper deals with a multi-period extension of the p-center problem, in which arc traversal times vary over time, and facilities are mobile units that can be relocated multiple times during the planning horizon. The problem arises in several applications, …
Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Recently, many researchers have used deep reinforcement learning to solve it. However, traffic factors are rarely considered in their works, in which the traveling time between customer locations is …
Most time-dependent vehicle routing problems are based on a similar modeling paradigm: travel time information is represented by travel time functions between pairs of points of interest (e.g., depot or customers). Only a few papers investigate how these functions can …
This paper deals with a problem where the same vehicle performs several routes to serve a set of customers and arc traversal times vary along the planning horizon. The relationship with its time-invariant counterpart is investigated and a procedure to …
The time-dependent traveling salesman problem (TDTSP) asks for a shortest Hamiltonian tour in a directed graph where (asymmetric) arc-costs depend on the time the arc is entered. With traffic data abundantly available, methods to optimize routes with respect to time-dependent …
The travel time to proceed from one location to another in a network is an important consideration in many urban transportation settings ranging from the planning of delivery routes in freight transportation to the determination of shortest itineraries in advanced …
Integer programs for solving time-dependent models—models in which decisions have to be made about the times at which activities occur and/or resources are utilized—are pervasive in industry, but are notoriously difficult to solve. In the last few years, interest in …
We introduce the time-dependent capacitated profitable tour problem with time windows and precedence constraints. This problem concerns determining a tour and its departure time at the depot that maximizes the collected profit minus the total travel cost (measured by total …
This paper proposes a fast ant colony system based solution method to solve realistic instances of the time-dependent orienteering problem with time windows within a few seconds of computation time. Orienteering problems occur in logistic situations where an optimal combination …
We propose a metaheuristic for the Time-Dependent Pollution-Routing Problem, which consists of routing a number of vehicles to serve a set of customers and determining their speed on each route segment with the objective of minimizing the cost of driver’s …