A branch-price-and-cut algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with release and due dates

Weibo Yang, Liangjun Ke, David Z.W. Wang and Jasmine Siu Lee Lam

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2021, vol. 145, issue C

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the vehicle routing problem with release and due dates (VRPRD), which is a new variant of vehicle routing problem (VRP). In the problem, the order required by a customer is available for delivery later than its release date. A penalty cost, called tardiness cost, will be imposed if a customer is served after its due date. The objective of the VRPRD is to minimize the total routing and weighted tardiness costs. To address the problem, we develop an exact branch-price-and-cut algorithm based on the set-partitioning formulation. An effective bidirectional labeling algorithm is proposed to deal with the pricing problem. Numerical studies have verified that the proposed algorithm can obtain the exact optimal solutions for more than 75% of benchmark instances within approximately six minutes on average.

Keywords: Vehicle routing; Release and due dates; Branch-price-and-cut; Bidirectional labeling algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.102167

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