The fleet size and mix location-routing problem with time windows: Formulations and a heuristic algorithm

Çağrı Koç, Tolga Bektaş, Ola Jabali and Gilbert Laporte

European Journal of Operational Research, 2016, vol. 248, issue 1, 33-51

Abstract: This paper introduces the fleet size and mix location-routing problem with time windows (FSMLRPTW) which extends the location-routing problem by considering a heterogeneous fleet and time windows. The main objective is to minimize the sum of vehicle fixed cost, depot cost and routing cost. We present mixed integer programming formulations, a family of valid inequalities and we develop a powerful hybrid evolutionary search algorithm (HESA) to solve the problem. The HESA successfully combines several metaheuristics and offers a number of new advanced efficient procedures tailored to handle heterogeneous fleet dimensioning and location decisions. We evaluate the strengths of the proposed formulations with respect to their ability to find optimal solutions. We also investigate the performance of the HESA. Extensive computational experiments on new benchmark instances have shown that the HESA is highly effective on the FSMLRPTW.

Keywords: location-routing; heterogeneous fleet; time windows; mixed integer programming; genetic algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.06.082

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