The split-delivery mixed capacitated arc-routing problem: Applications and a forest-based tabu search approach

Mingzhu Yu, Xin Jin, Zizhen Zhang, Hu Qin and Qidong Lai

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2019, vol. 132, issue C, 141-162

Abstract: Motivated by practical applications such as the water sprinkling services of urban administration bureaus in big cities, we study a split-delivery mixed capacitated arc-routing problem. In this problem, a fleet of capacitated vehicles need to serve a set of arcs/edges in a split delivery manner by traversing a mixed graph. We provide a mathematical formulation and analyze some properties of the problem that could be utilized to accelerate the search process of a meta-heuristic algorithm. A forest-based tabu search algorithm is proposed to efficiently solve the problem. Numerical experiments show that our algorithm can quickly produce high quality solutions compared with the state-of-the-art approaches. In addition, we analyze how different patterns of a mixed graph affect the quality of solutions.

Keywords: Split-delivery; Arc-routing problem; Mixed graph; Forest-based tabu search; Water sprinkling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2019.09.017

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