A Multi-compartment Vehicle Routing Problem for Livestock Feed Distribution

Levent Kandiller (), Deniz Türsel Eliiyi () and Bahar Taşar ()
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Levent Kandiller: Yasar University
Deniz Türsel Eliiyi: Yasar University
Bahar Taşar: Yasar University

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2015, 2017, pp 149-155 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), customer demands from one or more depots are to be distributed via a fleet of vehicles. Various objectives of the problem are considered in literature, including minimization of the total distance/time traversed by the fleet during distribution, the total cost of vehicle usage, or minimizing the maximum tour length/time. In this study, we consider a multi-compartment VRP with incompatible products for the daily solution of a livestock feed distribution network, where each livestock farm requests one type of feed from a single depot, and the vehicles have several compartments. The objective is to minimize the total cost of distribution. Although VRP is a well-studied problem in literature, multi-compartment VRP is considered only by few authors, and our problem differs from the existing ones due to special operational constraints imposed by the situation on hand. We formulate a basic mathematical model for the problem and present possible extensions. We design a computational experiment for testing the effects of uncontrollable parameters over model performance on a commercial solver and report the results. The proposed model can easily be adapted to other distribution networks such as food and fuel/chemicals.

Keywords: Travel Salesman Problem; Travel Salesman Problem; Fuel Cost; Vehicle Route Problem; Mixed Integer Programming Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42902-1_20

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