A practical solution approach for the green vehicle routing problem

Valeria Leggieri and Mohamed Haouari

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2017, vol. 104, issue C, 97-112

Abstract: Green vehicle routing (GVRP) is an active research area that is concerned with the development and analysis of distribution activities with eco-friendly vehicles. We propose a practical solution approach for the GVRP that uses a mixed-integer linear formulation and a reduction procedure. The newly formulation offers two significant advantages: compactness and flexibility. We provide empirical evidence that the formulation and the reduction procedure enable to derive optimal solutions for medium-sized instances using a general-purpose solver. We show that the proposed exact approach consistently outperforms a state-of-the-art branch-and-cut algorithm and constitutes an appealing and practical alternative for optimally solving GVRPs.

Keywords: Green vehicle routing problem; Compact mixed integer linear programming formulation; Reformulation-Linearization Technique; Preprocessing procedures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (19)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366554517302880
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transe:v:104:y:2017:i:c:p:97-112

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600244/bibliographic
http://www.elsevier. ... 600244/bibliographic

DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2017.06.003

Access Statistics for this article

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review is currently edited by W. Talley

More articles in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().