The balancing traveling salesman problem: application to warehouse order picking

Atieh Madani, Rajan Batta () and Mark Karwan
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Atieh Madani: University at Buffalo
Rajan Batta: University at Buffalo
Mark Karwan: University at Buffalo

TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2021, vol. 29, issue 2, No 9, 442-469

Abstract: Abstract This paper discusses the problem of predicting the length of Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) tour in dynamic and uncertain environments. Our findings, which are guided by extensive simulation runs, provide statistical estimations for the tour length under different scenarios. One of the applications that can benefit from these estimates includes warehouse order picking, which has seen increased importance due to online shopping. The utility of statistical estimates for TSP tour length for order picking is demonstrated on a common warehouse layout.

Keywords: Traveling salesman problem; Warehousing systems; Routing; 90B05; 90B06 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11750-020-00557-y

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