Field services design and management of natural gas distribution networks: a class of vehicle routing problem with time windows approach

Massimo Paolucci, Davide Anghinolfi and Flavio Tonelli

International Journal of Production Research, 2018, vol. 56, issue 3, 1154-1170

Abstract: Service operations management of metropolitan gas networks at operational level implies the optimisation of decisions related to logistic activities, taking into account multi-objectives and operational constraints. This paper proposes a metaheuristic approach for the operational planning of the daily logistic activities based on vehicle routing with time window model. Experimental results for a real planning case in a gas distribution network demonstrate the approach effectiveness.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2017.1398425

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