Title of article
A tabusearchalgorithmfortheheterogeneousfixedfleetvehicle routing problem
Author/Authors
Jose´ Brand~ao ، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
Pages
12
From page
140
To page
151
Abstract
In theheterogeneousfixedfleetvehicleroutingproblemtherearedifferenttypesofvehiclesandagiven
numberofvehiclesofeachtype.Theresolutionofthisproblemconsistsofassigningthecustomersto
the existingvehiclesand,inrelationtoeachvehicle,definingtheorderofvisitingeachcustomerforthe
deliveryorcollectionofgoods.Theobjectiveistominimizethetotalcosts,satisfyingcustomers’
requirementsandvisitingeachcustomerexactlyonce.Inthispaperatabusearchalgorithmisproposed
and testedonseveralbenchmarkproblems.Thecomputationalexperimentsshowthattheproposed
algorithmproduceshighqualitysolutionswithinanacceptablecomputationtime.Fournewbest
solutionsarereportedforasetoftestproblemsusedintheliterature.
Keywords
Logistics , Tabu search , Heterogeneous fixed fleet , vehicle routing , Heuristics
Journal title
Computers and Operations Research
Serial Year
2011
Journal title
Computers and Operations Research
Record number
927842
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