© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.This paper studies a vehicle routing problem with time-dependent and stochastic travel times. In our problem setting, customers have soft time windows. A mathematical model is used in which both efficiency for service as well as reliability …
We investigate the complexity of shortest paths in time-dependent graphs where the costs of edges (that is, edge travel times) vary as a function of time, and as a result the shortest path between two nodes s and d can …
Abstract- This article considers the problem of finding a route and schedule for a vehicle starting from a depot, visiting a set of customers, and returning to the depot, in a time-dependent network where the objective is to minimize the …
In this paper we exploit some properties of the travel time model proposed by Ichoua, Gendreau, and Potvin [Ichoua S, Gendreau M, Potvin J-Y (2003) Vehicle dispatching with time-dependent travel times. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 144:379–396], on which most of …
In this paper we address optimal routing problems in networks where travel times are both stochastic and time-dependent. In these networks, the best route choice is not necessarily a path, but rather a time-adaptive strategy that assigns successors to nodes …
The point-to-point quickest path problem is a classical network optimization problem with numerous applications, including that of computing driving directions. In this paper, we define a lower bound on the time-to-target which is both accurate and fast to compute. We …
In urban areas, logistic transportation operations often run into problems because travel speeds change, depending on the current traffic situation. If not accounted for, time-dependent and stochastic travel speeds frequently lead to missed time windows and thus poorer service. Especially …
This paper introduces a fast solution procedure to solve 100-node instances of the time-dependent orienteering problem (TD-OP) within a few seconds of computation time. Orienteering problems occur in logistic situations were an optimal combination of locations needs to be selected …
Given a graph whose arc traversal times vary over time, the time-dependent travelling salesman problem (TDTSP) consists in finding a Hamiltonian tour of least total duration covering the vertices of the graph. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, …
The minimum cost path problem in a time-varying road network is a complicated problem. The paper proposes two heuristic methods to solve the minimum cost path problem between a pair of nodes with a time-varying road network and a congestion …