A vehicle routing problem with multi-trips and time windows for circular items

L Martínez and Amaya C-A
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L Martínez: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
Amaya C-A: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2013, vol. 64, issue 11, 1630-1643

Abstract: This article presents a vehicle routing problem with time windows, multiple trips, a limited number of vehicles and loading constraints for circular objects. This is a real problem experienced by a home delivery service company. A linear model is proposed to handle small problems and a two-step heuristic method to solve real size instances: the first step builds an initial solution through the modification of the Solomon I1 sequential insertion heuristic, and the second step improves the initial solution through the Tabu search algorithm proposed; in both steps, the problems related to circle packing with different sizes and bin packing are solved jointly with the use of heuristics. Finally, the computing results for two different sets of instances are presented.

Date: 2013
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