A branch-and-cut-and-price approach for the pickup and delivery problem with shuttle routes

Renaud Masson, Stefan Ropke, Fabien Lehuédé and Olivier Péton

European Journal of Operational Research, 2014, vol. 236, issue 3, 849-862

Abstract: The Pickup and Delivery Problem with Shuttle routes (PDPS) is a special case of the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows (PDPTW) where the trips between the pickup points and the delivery points can be decomposed into two legs. The first leg visits only pickup points and ends at some delivery point. The second leg is a direct trip – called a shuttle – between two delivery points. This optimization problem has practical applications in the transportation of people between a large set of pickup points and a restricted set of delivery points.

Keywords: Pickup and delivery problem; Transfers; Column generation; Branch-and-cut-and-price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.08.042

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