成品油配送多车舱车辆指派及路径优化问题研究

针对成品油配送中多车型、多车舱的车辆优化调度难题,综合考虑多车型车辆指派、多车舱车辆装载及路径安排等决策,以派车成本与油耗成本之和的总成本最小为目标,建立了多车型多车舱的车辆优化调度模型。为降低模型求解的复杂性,本文提出一种基于C-W节约算法的“需求拆分→合并装载”的车辆装载策略,并综合利用Relocate和Exchange算子进行并行邻域搜索改进,获得优化的成品油配送方案。最后,通过算例验证了本文提出的模型与算法用于求解大规模成品油配送问题的有效性。并通过数据实验揭示了以下规律:1)多车舱车辆相对于单车舱车辆在运营成本上具有优越性;2)大型车辆适合远距离配送,小型车辆适合近距离配送;3)多车型车辆混合配送相对于单车型车辆配送在运营成本上具有优越性。这些规律可为成品油配送公司的车辆配置提供决策参考。     

考虑订单取件时间和柔性时间窗的取送货车辆路径问题

研究了同城配送中考虑订单取货时间和柔性时间窗的取送货车辆路径问题,考虑同城配送中订单起终点,订单取货时间和订单配送的柔性时间窗,车容量限制等因素。首先构建以配送成本与超时惩罚成本之和最小化为目标的混合整数线性模型。其次,设计了含多种有效不等式及其对应分离算法的改进分支切割算法对该模型进行精确求解。最后通过实验测试分析了不等式的性能,验证了算法的有效性,实验表明适当的减少车辆数和增大装载能力能够有效的减少成本。     

近似动态规划求解随机需求分批配送车辆路径问题

本文针对现实生活中固体废弃物收集等需求随机的分批配送车辆路径问题，建立双层马尔科夫决策模型，使用基于动态分区的全局修正策略和基于部分重优化算法的近似动态规划进行求解。通过算例测试和分析表明模型和算法的有效性。得到以下结论：1)SDVRPSD的最优解中车辆数略高于最小期望车辆数的1.2倍，接近使用进化算法得到的最优解中的车辆数，这两者平均约相差0.6辆。2)与静态分区相比，动态分区以花费较多时间为代价，能显著提升服务范围、降低服务费用，并增加分批配送点数量。3)算法最优解与使用固定路径算法得到的初始解相比，期望服务需求量平均提高约2.6%,期望行驶费用平均降低约1.9%;分批配送点数平均多2.5个。     

遗传算法与蚂蚁算法的融合在带时间窗的车辆路径问题中的应用

对带时间窗的车辆路径问题(VRPTW)的求解分为两个过程,先由遗传算法求解出初步的可行解,由此生成信息素初始分布,而后采用蚂蚁算法找出问题的最优解或近似最优解.通过具体算例,从数值计算上探索了遗传算法和蚂蚁算法融合后的优化能力,获得了满意的效果.     

乘用车物流运输装载模型研究

对乘用车物流运输计划问题进行了研究,首先,建立了以单辆轿运车实载率最大为目标的单车最佳装载方案模型,以该方案配送乘用车辆直到运输任务完成以获得初始轿运车数,其次以空载率最小为目标设计了数量调整模型对初始轿运车数进行优化,得到最优装载方案模型.基于上述优化模型计算最小的轿运车数,建立在轿运车数量限制下的最短行驶里程模型,选择总行驶里程最小的装载方案作为最优的配送方案.最后建立基于路径的物流运输装载模型,运用Floyd算法计算任意起讫点间的最短路径,设计了一种全局搜索算法得到一种合理的配送方案,并以空载率最小为目标对方案进行优化.     

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。     

冷链物流同时送取货车辆路径优化

针对冷链物流同时送取货车辆路径优化问题,分析冷链物流配送中的车辆固定成本、行驶成本、制冷成本和货损成本等成本构成,以总成本最小化为目标,将冷链物流配送的送货和取货业务综合到每一个客户节点,建立单个配送中心和多个客户节点的冷链物流配送车辆路径优化模型,并采用遗传算法进行求解,算例分析验证了所建模型和设计算法的适用性和可行性,结果表明优化后的同时送取货车辆配送方案能够降低配送成本,提高配送效率,研究结论对冷链物流配送决策具有重要的参考价值.     

基于情景分析的应急两级车辆路径问题研究

为研究应急配送过程中次生灾害情景下的车辆路径问题,考虑当地配送中心最后完成救援物资配送任务的时间期望最小化为目标,构建了最小最大两级车辆路径随机规划模型.针对面临的塌方道路抢通时间是随机变量的情况,提出了解决该随机规划的三阶段决策方法:首先建立受灾区域配送点组合情景与随机抢通时间组合情景的关系模型,提出了路径计划策略;其次,提出了针对最小最大两级车辆路径问题的启发式算法;最后,确定每种情景发生的概率,得到最后当地配送中心最后完成救援物资配送任务的时间期望最小化的近似最优解.实验算例验证了该方法的可行性.     

变邻域模拟退火算法求解速度时变的VRPTW问题

本文在经典的带时间窗的车辆路径问题(VRPTW)的基础上,考虑不同时间段车辆行驶速度不同的情况,研究速度时变的带时间窗车辆路径问题(TDVRPTW),使问题更具实际意义。本文用分段函数表示不同时间段下的车辆行驶速度,并解决了速度时变条件下行驶时间计算的问题。针对模拟退火算法(SA)在求解VRPTW问题时易陷入局部最优解,变邻域搜索算法(VNS)在求解VRPTW问题时收敛速度慢的问题,本文将模拟退火算法以一定概率接受非最优解的思想和变邻域搜索算法系统地改变当前解的邻域结构以拓展搜索范围的思想结合起来,提出了一种改进的算法——变邻域模拟退火算法(SAVN),使算法在退火过程中一陷入局部最优解就改变邻域结构,更换搜索范围,以此提升算法跳出局部最优解的能力,加快收敛速度。通过在仿真实验中将SAVN算法的求解结果与VNS算法、SA算法进行对比,验证了SAVN算法确实能显著提升算法跳出局部最优解的能力。     

考虑订单合并和货物转运的多式联运路径优化研究

为了获得运输的规模经济效应,本文研究了一种考虑订单合并和货物转运的零担多式联运路径优化问题。首先,以总运输成本为目标函数,以网络中的运输工具容量、可以提供的运输工具最大数量、运输工具服务的关闭时间以及订单时间窗为约束,构建混合整数规划模型,在模型中允许多个订单进行合并运输并考虑运输过程中的转运成本。其次,由于多式联运路径优化问题是典型的NP-hard问题,为了快速求解该模型,开发了一种可以快速为该问题提供近似最优解和下界的列生成启发式算法。最后,生成并测试了大量算例,结果表明所开发的列生成启发式算法可以在较短的时间内提供高质量的近似最优解。文章所构建的模型和开发的列生成启发式算法可以为零担自营多式联运物流企业提供高效的决策支持。     

Symmetry helps: Bounded bi-directional dynamic programming for the elementary shortest path problem with resource constraints

When vehicle routing problems with additional constraints, such as capacity or time windows, are solved via column generation and branch-and-price, it is common that the pricing subproblem requires the computation of a minimum cost constrained path on a graph with costs on the arcs and prizes on the vertices. A common solution technique for this problem is dynamic programming. In this paper we illustrate how the basic dynamic programming algorithm can be improved by bounded bi-directional search and we experimentally evaluate the effectiveness of the enhancement proposed. We consider as benchmark problems the elementary shortest path problems arising as pricing subproblems in branch-and-price algorithms for the capacitated vehicle routing problem, the vehicle routing problem with distribution and collection and the capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows.     

需求可分的车辆路径问题模型与算法

需求可分的车辆路径问题(SDVRP)无论是从运输距离还是派车数量上,都可进一步优化传统的车辆路径问题。为了降低SDVRP的求解难度,本文在分析最优解性质的基础上,加强模型的约束条件,将原模型转变为等价的改进SDVRP,并在使用蚂蚁算法求解改进SDVRP模型的过程中,采用开发新路径和2-opt相结合的方法,以避免出现迭代停滞的现象。实验表明,算法计算结果稳定,最差解与最好解的偏差仅为1.80%。     

多时间窗车辆路径问题的智能水滴算法

研究了多时间窗车辆路径问题,考虑了车容量、多个硬时间窗限制等约束条件,以动用车辆的固定成本和车辆运行成本之和最小为目标,建立了整数线性规划模型。根据智能水滴算法的基本原理,设计了求解多时间窗车辆路径问题的快速算法,利用具体实例进行了模拟计算,并与遗传算法的计算结果进行了对比分析,结果显示,利用智能水滴算法求解多时间窗车辆路径问题,能够以很高的概率得到全局最优解,是求解多时间窗车辆路径问题的有效算法。     

Research on the vehicle routing problem with interval demands

In this paper, a vehicle routing problem with interval demands is investigated based on the motivation of dispatching vehicles to deliver perishable products in practice. A nonlinear interval-based programming method is used to build a model for the vehicle routing problem with interval demands, which assumes that demands of customers are uncertain but fall in given intervals and actual demand of a customer becomes known only when the vehicle visited the customer. A vehicle-coordinated strategy was designed to solve the service failure problem. A hybrid algorithm based on the artificial immune system is also proposed to solve the model for vehicle routing problem with interval demands. The validity of methods and sensitivity analysis are illustrated by conducting some numerical examples. We find that the tolerant possibility degree of interval number has significant impacts on the distances. The planned distance strictly increased, while the additional distance strictly decreased and the total distance after coordinated transport has a U-typed relationship with the tolerant possibility degree of interval number.     

Optimal routing in non-geostationary satellite ATM networks with intersatellite link capacity constraints

The trend toward broadband communications in space is foreseeable, and its features predestine ATM as the basic mode of operation. Some of the low and medium earth orbit satellite concepts make use of intersatellite links (ISLs) to provide global connectivity with minimal usage of terrestrial fixed network resources. Interconnecting neighbouring satellites with ISLs results in a partially meshed switching subnetwork in space. The ISLs have a time-varying distance or may even lose sight of each other. This feature of the ISL topology dynamics significantly increases the complexity of connection-oriented network operation and routing. We deal with the routing problem to minimize the virtual path connection handover rate and path delay in the time-varying ISL subnetwork topology with ISL capacity constraints. A heuristic algorithm is proposed to deal with this problem, which is based on Lagrangean relaxation and dynamic programming. When there is sufficient capacity at every ISL, the algorithm produces an optimal solution easily using only dynamic programming. For evaluation of our algorithm, some computational results have been presented. These results show that our optimization algorithm can produce a solution close to an optimal solution when there exist ISL capacity constraints.     

Solving the dynamic capacitated location-routing problem with fuzzy demands by hybrid heuristic algorithm

In this paper, the dynamic capacitated location-routing problem with fuzzy demands (DCLRP-FD) is considered. In the DCLRP-FD, facility location problem and vehicle routing problem are solved on a time horizon. Decisions concerning facility locations are permitted to be made only in the first time period of the planning horizon but, the routing decisions may be changed in each time period. Furthermore, the vehicles and depots have a predefined capacity to serve the customers with altering demands during the time horizon. It is assumed that the demands of customers are fuzzy variables. To model the DCLRP-FD, a fuzzy chance-constrained programming is designed based upon the fuzzy credibility theory. To solve this problem, a hybrid heuristic algorithm (HHA) with four phases including the stochastic simulation and a local search method are proposed. To achieve the best value of two parameters of the model, the dispatcher preference index (DPI) and the assignment preference index (API), and to analyze their influences on the final solution, numerical experiments are carried out. Moreover, the efficiency of the HHA is demonstrated via comparing with the lower bound of solutions and by using a standard benchmark set of test problems. The numerical examples show that the proposed algorithm is robust and could be used in real world problems.     

An iterated local search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with convex time penalty functions

We propose an iterated local search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time window constraints. We treat the time window constraint for each customer as a penalty function, and assume that it is convex and piecewise linear. Given an order of customers each vehicle to visit, dynamic programming (DP) is used to determine the optimal start time to serve the customers so that the total time penalty is minimized. This DP algorithm is then incorporated in the iterated local search algorithm to efficiently evaluate solutions in various neighborhoods. The amortized time complexity of evaluating a solution in the neighborhoods is a logarithmic order of the input size (i.e., the total number of linear pieces that define the penalty functions). Computational comparisons on benchmark instances with up to 1000 customers show that the proposed method is quite effective, especially for large instances.     

第三方库存-路线问题的模型及混合遗传算法设计

根据第三方库存-路线问题的特点,以车辆租赁费用和运行费用之和为目标函数,不限制客户每次的配送量小于车辆容量,建立了满载运输和非满载运输混合的整数规划模型.针对第三方库存-路线问题的复杂性,本文设计嵌入禁忌搜索的遗传算法来同时决策库存和路线问题.首先对配送间隔进行编码,然后用禁忌搜索法计算每天需要配送的车辆路线问题.最后与其下界值进行比较,结果表明该算法是一个有效的算法,不但第三方能取得较低的运营总成本和较高的车辆利用率,而且也能为客户节约库存空间.