不确定运行时间环境下的车辆调度问题及启发式算法

考虑到物流公司或者配送中心车辆实际运行过程中时间的不确定性,提出了配送服务线路包含时间窗口、车辆容量约束的随机规划模型,以最小化车辆运行成本同时尽可能降低所服务顾客的不满意度.同时,又稍作改进给出了平均-风险模型,由于VRP问题是NP难的,给出了一种基于禁忌搜索的启发式算法,并以北京市13个点的为例,给出求解结果.     

基于货物分类配送的电动汽车路径优化与换电策略研究

电动汽车参与的物流配送服务需要统筹协调车辆路径、配送对象与换电策略。本文提出了考虑货物分类需求的电动汽车路径优化与换电策略问题,并建立了该问题的整数规划数学模型。其次,提出了基于禁忌搜索-改进节约算法的两阶段混合启发式算法MCWTS和一种四阶段启发式算法IGALNS。通过多组小规模算例验证了算法的有效性。随后,分别从运营成本、路径距离、换电策略以及混合运输线路等方面比较并分析了货物分类对运营策略的影响。实验结果表明,该模型可以在配送距离略有增加的情况下避免将不适宜混合运输的货物指派给同一车辆,达到降低货物运输损失提高顾客满意度的目的。最后,通过多组较大规模算例对两种启发式算法的有效性进行了比较。     

一种部分约束满足车辆路线问题及其求解算法

描述了一类过度约束车辆路线问题，其中可用车辆数较少而时间窗口等其它约束又不允许放松，因而导致不存在满足所有约束的可行解。此时问题求解可以转化为一类部分约束满足问题来处理，相应的优化目标是最小化未访问顾客的损失和。本给出了求解这类特殊问题的一种禁忌搜索算法设计，并通过规模不同的几个算例与其它常用方法进行了比较。最后分析了模型和算法的实用意义。     

基于精英单亲遗传算法的冷链物流VRP模型优化研究

针对冷链物流配送的特殊性,探索冷链物流车辆路径问题(VRP)优化方案.首先,在保证货物不超载的条件下,建立基于时间和品质因素的顾客满意度约束的多配送中心VRP(MDVRP)模型;其次,采用重心分区法和改进的精英单亲遗传算法,求解顾客在配送中心的分配,确定配送车辆数以及顾客服务次序;最后,用Matlab工具编程对模型进行求解分析.结果表明构建基于满意度的冷链物流MDVRP模型更适合冷链物流配送最优路径选择,并且改进单亲遗传算法能够有效求解这类问题.     

带时间窗口的超市物流配送不确定规划模型

主要研究了不确定环境下带时间窗口的超市物流配送问题。假设超市的日需求量是不确定变量,在配送过程中车辆的行驶时间也为不确定变量。为了最小化配送过程中车辆行驶时间,建立了不确定机会约束模型。然后应用不确定变量的运算法则对模型进行等价转化,并为求解模型设计了算法。最后给出了一个数值算例来说明模型的实际应用。     

基于时间满意度的应急物资储备库选址问题

基于应急物资配送过程中时间因素的重要性,将时间满意度引人应急物资储备库选址问题中.针对时间满意度为线性分段函数,建立了以时间满意度最小的需求点的时间满意度尽量大以及系统总费用最小为目标的双目标混合整数规划模型,对目标函数的最小最大值问题进行转化,在此基础上构造新的优化模型,并设计了相应的启发式算法求解.最后通过算例说明算法的可行性和有效性.     

基于交通流的多模糊时间窗车辆路径优化

研究了基于交通流的多模糊时间窗车辆路径问题,考虑了实际中不断变化的交通流以及客户具有多个模糊时间窗的情况,以最小化配送总成本和最大化客户满意度为目标,构建基于交通流的多模糊时间窗车辆路径模型。根据伊藤算法的基本原理,设计了求解该模型的改进伊藤算法,结合仿真算例进行了模拟计算,并与蚁群算法的计算结果进行了对比分析,结果表明,利用改进伊藤算法求解基于交通流的多模糊时间窗车辆路径问题,迭代次数小,效率更高,能够在较短的时间内收敛到全局最优解,可以有效的求解多模糊时间窗车辆路径问题。     

带时间窗分车运输同时收发车辆路径问题及其启发式算法

本文结合汽车零部件第三方物流的实际背景,提出了带时间窗的可分车运输同时收发车辆路径问题(简称SVRPSPDTW),并给出了问题的数学模型,同时提出两个求解该问题的启发式算法,最后进行了数值试验.由于没有可以利用的算例,本文在Solomn测试基准库的基础上构建了针对新问题的算例.计算结果表明,所有算例计算时间均不超过1秒,且算法1无论是从车辆的使用数还是从车辆行驶的路径总长度上都明显优于算法2,从而说明算法1是寻找SVRPSPDTW问题初始可行解的较为有效的算法.     

不确定同时取送货车辆路径问题及粒子群算法研究

研究了不确定同时取送货车辆路径问题(VRPSPD),考虑运行环境的不确定性,顾客时间窗口要求和对顾客同时进行取货和送货服务的情况,以运作成本最低和顾客满意度最高为决策目标,构建不确定VRPSPD数学模型。模型中,引入模糊随机理论来描述决策环境中的双重不确定性,假定顾客需求量(送货量)和取货量是模糊随机变量。随后,提出基于模糊随机算子的改进粒子群算法对模型进行求解。为了适应模型特点和提高算法效率,设计合理的编码和解码过程,制定多个适应度函数方案处理多目标问题,并应用更加科学的更新策略。最后在应用案例中,通过参数测试获取合理的算法参数取值,采用计算结果分析和求解算法测评验证模型和算法的有效性。     

托运人联盟下的订单组合及车货调配问题研究

中小型企业的快速发展使得如何有效利用其物流资源、降低其物流成本成为一个亟需解决的问题。本文基于运输联盟的角度,建立了以最小化总成本为优化目标,综合考虑各运输需求时间窗、运输量等因素的车货调度模型。而后,提出了3种时间窗处理策略,设计了粒子群算法对上述模型进行求解,并通过算例对模型和算法的有效性进行了分析。算例结果表明,该模型一方面能够显著降低物流总成本,另一方面可有效节约使用车辆数。因此,本文研究对降低社会物流成本、整合社会物流资源具有一定的理论意义。     

基于油耗的带有车容限制弧路径问题的模型及优化

提出了一种基于油耗的带有车容限制的弧路径问题(Capacitated Arc RoutingProblem,CARP),建立了以降低油耗为目标的问题模型,构造了相应的遗传算法.基于标准测试问题,同传统以距离为优化目标的遗传算法求得的油耗进行比较,实验结果表明,此算法可以快速、有效的求得以油耗为优化目标的CARP问题的优化解,为实际中降低车辆运输服务成本提供了较好方案.     

A two-stage model for a day-ahead paratransit planning problem

We consider a dynamic planning problem for paratransit transportation. The focus is on a decision to take one day ahead: which requests to serve with own vehicles, and which requests to subcontract to taxis? We call this problem the day-ahead paratransit planning problem. The developed model is a non-standard two-stage integer recourse model. Both stages consist of two consecutive optimization problems: the clustering of requests into routes, and the assignment of these routes to vehicles. To solve this model, a genetic algorithm approach is used. Computational results are presented for randomly generated data sets.     

A post-improvement procedure for the mixed load school bus routing problem

This paper aims to develop a mixed load algorithm for the school bus routing problem (SBRP) and measure its effects on the number of required vehicles. SBRP seeks to find optimal routes for a fleet of vehicles, where each vehicle transports students from their homes and to their schools while satisfying various constraints. When mixed load is allowed, students of different schools can get on the same bus at the same time. Although many of real world SBRP allow mixed load, only a few studies have considered these cases. In this paper, we present a new mixed load improvement algorithm and compare it with the only existing algorithm from the literature. Benchmark problems are proposed to compare the performances of algorithms and to stimulate other researchers’ further study. The proposed algorithm outperforms the existing algorithm on the benchmark problem instances. It has also been successfully applied to some of real-world SBRP and could reduce the required number of vehicles compared with the current practice.     

Modeling of a station in CVS and an approach to analyze distributions of time intervals of vehicles departed from the station

A stochastic model is developed for an off-line station with a single berth in a computer-controlled vehicle system (CVS). Distributions of time intervals with departures of four types of vehicles from the station are derived by using conditional first passage-times between states on an aggregated Markov chain. We show an algorithm to allow a convenient analysis.     

Emergency Logistics Planning in Natural Disasters

Logistics planning in emergency situations involves dispatching commodities (e.g., medical materials and personnel, specialised rescue equipment and rescue teams, food, etc.) to distribution centres in affected areas as soon as possible so that relief operations are accelerated. In this study, a planning model that is to be integrated into a natural disaster logistics Decision Support System is developed. The model addresses the dynamic time-dependent transportation problem that needs to be solved repetitively at given time intervals during ongoing aid delivery. The model regenerates plans incorporating new requests for aid materials, new supplies and transportation means that become available during the current planning time horizon. The plan indicates the optimal mixed pick up and delivery schedules for vehicles within the considered planning time horizon as well as the optimal quantities and types of loads picked up and delivered on these routes. In emergency logistics context, supply is available in limited quantities at the current time period and on specified future dates. Commodity demand is known with certainty at the current date, but can be forecasted for future dates. Unlike commercial environments, vehicles do not have to return to depots, because the next time the plan is re-generated, a node receiving commodities may become a depot or a former depot may have no supplies at all. As a result, there are no closed loop tours, and vehicles wait at their last stop until they receive the next order from the logistics coordination centre. Hence, dispatch orders for vehicles consist of sets of “broken” routes that are generated in response to time-dependent supply/demand. The mathematical model describes a setting that is considerably different than the conventional vehicle routing problem. In fact, the problem is a hybrid that integrates the multi-commodity network flow problem and the vehicle routing problem. In this setting, vehicles are also treated as commodities. The model is readily decomposed into two multi-commodity network flow problems, the first one being linear (for conventional commodities) and the second integer (for vehicle flows). In the solution approach, these sub-models are coupled with relaxed arc capacity constraints using Lagrangean relaxation. The convergence of the proposed algorithm is tested on small test instances as well as on an earthquake scenario of realistic size.     

The open vehicle routing problem with time windows

In this paper, we consider the open vehicle routing problem with time windows (OVRPTW). The OVRPTW seeks to find a set of non-depot returning vehicle routes, for a fleet of capacitated vehicles, to satisfy customers’ requirements, within fixed time intervals that represent the earliest and latest times during the day that customers’ service can take place. We formulate a comprehensive mathematical model to capture all aspects of the problem, and incorporate in the model all critical practical concerns. The model is solved using a greedy look-ahead route construction heuristic algorithm, which utilizes time windows related information via composite customer selection and route-insertion criteria. These criteria exploit the interrelationships between customers, introduced by time windows, that dictate the sequence in which vehicles must visit customers. Computational results on a set of benchmark problems from the literature provide very good results and indicate the applicability of the methodology in real-life routing applications.     

无预警紧急疏散中公交车辆路径的确定方法

针对无预警式紧急疏散中公交救援车辆的最佳路径确定问题,提出了一个非线性混合整数规划模型.模型不仅考虑了有接收能力限制的多避难所系统,还对如何处理具有不同载客上限的公交救援车进行了分析.利用添加了虚拟路段和节点的时空网络,在以加权的综合疏散时间最小为目标的同时实现了疏散伤亡最小化.通过分析实际疏散的实施过程,得到了一种产生模型可行解的有效方法.通过将时间滚动式的流量加载模式与经典遗传算法相结合,给出了新模型的实用解法.最后,通过算例验证了模型和算法的有效性.     

求解硬时间窗约束下随机需求库存-路径问题的优化算法

随机需求库存-路径问题(Stochastic Demand Inventory Routing Problem, SDIRP)即考虑随机需求环境下供应链中库存与配送的协调优化问题,是实施供应商管理库存策略过程中的关键所在,也是典型的NP难题之一。文章以具有硬时间窗约束的随机需求库存-路径问题(Stochastic Demand Inventory Routing Problem with Hard Time Windows, SDIRPHTW)为研究对象,将SDIRPHTW分解为直接配送的随机库存-路径问题和具有硬时间窗约束的路径优化问题两个子问题,并以最小化系统运行成本和用车数量为目标,设计了一个基于(s,S)库存策略和修正C-W节约法的启发式算法。最后,通过相应的数值算例验证了算法的有效性。     

Finished-vehicle transporter routing problem solved by loading pattern discovery

This work addresses a new transportation problem in outbound logistics in the automobile industry: the finished-vehicle transporter routing problem (FVTRP). The FVTRP is a practical routing problem with loading constraints, and it assumes that dealers have deterministic demands for finished vehicles that have three-dimensional irregular shapes. The problem solution will identify optimal routes while satisfying demands. In terms of complex packing, finished vehicles are not directly loaded into the spaces of transporters; instead, loading patterns matching finished vehicles with transporters are identified first by mining successful loading records through virtual and manual loading test procedures, such that the packing problem is practically solved with the help of a procedure to discover loading patterns. This work proposes a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model for the FVTRP considering loading patterns. As a special class of routing models, the FVTRP is typically difficult to solve within a manageable computing time. Thus, an evolutionary algorithm is designed to solve the FVTRP. Comparisons of the proposed algorithm and a commercial MILP solver demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is more effective in solving medium- and large-scale problems. The proposed scheme for addressing the FVTRP is illustrated with an example and tested with benchmark instances that are derived from well-studied vehicle routing datasets.     

A new bilevel formulation for the vehicle routing problem and a solution method using a genetic algorithm

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most well studied problems in operations research, both in real life problems and for scientific research purposes. During the last 50 years a number of different formulations have been proposed, together with an even greater number of algorithms for the solution of the problem. In this paper, the VRP is formulated as a problem of two decision levels. In the first level, the decision maker assigns customers to the vehicles checking the feasibility of the constructed routes (vehicle capacity constraints) and without taking into account the sequence by which the vehicles will visit the customers. In the second level, the decision maker finds the optimal routes of these assignments. The decision maker of the first level, once the cost of each routing has been calculated in the second level, estimates which assignment is the better one to choose. Based on this formulation, a bilevel genetic algorithm is proposed. In the first level of the proposed algorithm, a genetic algorithm is used for calculating the population of the most promising assignments of customers to vehicles. In the second level of the proposed algorithm, a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is solved, independently for each member of the population and for each assignment to vehicles. The algorithm was tested on two sets of benchmark instances and gave very satisfactory results. In both sets of instances the average quality is less than 1%. More specifically in the set with the 14 classic instances proposed by Christofides, the quality is 0.479% and in the second set with the 20 large scale vehicle routing problems, the quality is 0.826%. The algorithm is ranked in the tenth place among the 36 most known and effective algorithms in the literature for the first set of instances and in the sixth place among the 16 algorithms for the second set of instances. The computational time of the algorithm is decreased significantly compared to other heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms due to the fact that the Expanding Neighborhood Search Strategy is used.