A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows

Cordeau J-F, G Laporte () and A Mercier ()
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Cordeau J-F: École des Hautes Études Commerciales
G Laporte: École des Hautes Études Commerciales
A Mercier: École des Hautes Études Commerciales

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2001, vol. 52, issue 8, 928-936

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents a unified tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows and for two important generalizations: the periodic and the multi-depot vehicle routing problems with time windows. The major benefits of the approach are its speed, simplicity and flexibility. The performance of the heuristic is assessed by comparing it to alternative methods on benchmark instances of the vehicle routing problem with time windows. Computational experiments are also reported on new randomly generated instances for each of the two generalizations.

Keywords: vehicle routing problem; periodic vehicle routing problem; multi-depot vehicle routing problem; time windows; tabu search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601163

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