Insertion of new depot locations for the optimization of multi-vehicles multi-depots pickup and Delivery Problems using Genetic Algorithm

The Pickup and Delivery Problems (PDP) represent an important class of Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) in which goods must be collected and distributed. In this paper, we propose an approach which is based on the combination of Genetic Algorithm (GA) with the clustering algorithm for the optimization of multi-vehicles, multi-depots, pickup and delivery problem (m-MDPDP). The main contribution is to find new depot locations in order to obtain feasible solution (routes) for the m-MDPDPTW. These routes satisfy transportation requests without contravening any of the instance specific constraints.