• Title of article

    Dynamic windowreductionforthemultipledepotvehicleschedulingproblemwith time windows

  • Author/Authors

    Ahmed Hadjar، نويسنده , , FrançoisSoumisb، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    2160
  • To page
    2172
  • Abstract
    We considerawidespreadbranch-and-priceapproachtosolvethemultipledepotvehiclescheduling problem withtimewindows.Wedescribeadynamictimewindowreductiontechniquetospeedupthis approach. Thetimewindowsaretransferredfromnodestoarcsinordertotakeadvantageofdualinfor- mation andtotightenasmuchaspossiblethetimevariabledomains.Theperformanceoftheproposed technique isevaluatedthroughcomputationalexperimentsonrandomlygeneratedinstancesinvolving several depotsandupto900tasks.
  • Keywords
    Branch and Bound , vehicle scheduling , Time Windows , Column generation , Branch and price , Window reduction
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927601