A tabu search heuristic for a routing problem arising in servicing of offshore oil and gas platforms

I Gribkovskaia (), G Laporte and A Shlopak ()
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I Gribkovskaia: Molde University College
G Laporte: HEC Montréal
A Shlopak: Molde University College

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2008, vol. 59, issue 11, 1449-1459

Abstract: Abstract This paper introduces a pickup and delivery problem encountered in servicing of offshore oil and gas platforms in the Norwegian Sea. A single vessel must perform pickups and deliveries at several offshore platforms. All delivery demands originate at a supply base and all pickup demands are also destined to the base. The vessel capacity may never be exceeded along its route. In addition, the amount of space available for loading and unloading operations is limited at each platform. The problem, called the Single Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problem with Capacitated Customers consists of designing a least cost vehicle (vessel) route starting and ending at the depot (base), visiting each customer (platform), and such that there is always sufficient capacity in the vehicle and at the customer location to perform the pickup and delivery operations. This paper describes several construction heuristics as well as a tabu search algorithm. Computational results are presented.

Keywords: pickup and delivery; vehicle routing; capacitated customers; offshore oil and gas platforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602469

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