The Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Road-Network Information

Hamza Ben Ticha (), Nabil Absi (), Dominique Feillet (), Alain Quilliot () and Tom Woensel ()
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Hamza Ben Ticha: Univ Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6158 LIMOS, Centre CMP
Nabil Absi: Univ Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6158 LIMOS, Centre CMP
Dominique Feillet: Univ Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, UMR 6158 LIMOS, Centre CMP
Alain Quilliot: Institut Supérieur d’Informatique de Modélisation et leurs Applications, ISIMA
Tom Woensel: Eindhoven University of Technology

SN Operations Research Forum, 2021, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: Abstract Most time-dependent vehicle routing problems are based on a similar modeling paradigm: travel time information is represented by travel time functions between pairs of points of interest (e.g., depot or customers). Only a few papers investigate how these functions can be computed using the available travel time information. Furthermore, most of them neglect the possibility that different paths could be selected in the road network depending on the compromises they offer between cost (distance) and travel time. In this paper, we propose a new setting where travel time functions are defined on road-network arcs. We consider the Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and solve it with a branch-and-price algorithm. As far as we know, this is the first exact approach for a time-dependent vehicle routing problem when travel time functions are initially defined on the segments of a road-network.

Keywords: Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem; Branch-and-price; Road network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s43069-020-00049-6

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