The multi-trip vehicle routing problem |
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Authors: | J C S Brandão A Mercer |
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Affiliation: | 1.Universidade do Minho,Braga,Portugal;2.Lancaster University,USA |
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Abstract: | The basic vehicle routing problem is concerned with the design of a set of routes to serve a given number of customers, minimising the total distance travelled. In that problem, each vehicle is assumed to be used only once during a planning period, which is typically a day, and therefore is unrepresentative of many practical situations, where a vehicle makes several journeys during a day. The present authors have previously published an algorithm which outperformed an experienced load planner working on the complex, real-life problems of Burton's Biscuits, where vehicles make more than one trip each day. This present paper uses a simplified version of that general algorithm, in order to compare it with a recently published heuristic specially designed for the theoretical multi-trip vehicle routing problem. |
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