A successive approximations method for the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem: analysing different fleet configurations

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel A. Juan ◽  
Javier Faulin ◽  
Jose Caceres Cruz ◽  
Barry B. Barrios ◽  
Enoc Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Successive Approximations ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem

scholarly journals Multidepot Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem for a Variety of Hazardous Materials with Risk Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Bochen Wang ◽  
Qiyuan Qian ◽  
Zheyi Tan ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Aizhi Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Hazardous Materials ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem

This study investigates a multidepot heterogeneous vehicle routing problem for a variety of hazardous materials with risk analysis, which is a practical problem in the actual industrial field. The objective of the problem is to design a series of routes that minimize the total cost composed of transportation cost, risk cost, and overtime work cost. Comprehensive consideration of factors such as transportation costs, multiple depots, heterogeneous vehicles, risks, and multiple accident scenarios is involved in our study. The problem is defined as a mixed integer programming model. A bidirectional tuning heuristic algorithm and particle swarm optimization algorithm are developed to solve the problem of different scales of instances. Computational results are competitive such that our algorithm can obtain effective results in small-scale instances and show great efficiency in large-scale instances with 70 customers, 30 vehicles, and 3 types of hazardous materials.

Optimization of Multi-Depot Heterogeneous Incident Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows Based on an Improved Ant Colony Optimization

2014 ◽  
Vol 1061-1062 ◽  
pp. 1108-1117
Author(s):  
Ya Lian Tang ◽  
Yan Guang Cai ◽  
Qi Jiang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Ant Colony Optimization ◽  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Time Windows ◽  
Ant Colony ◽  
Genetic Operators ◽  
Solution Quality ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Soft Time Windows ◽  
Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem

Aiming at vehicle routing problem (VRP) with many extended features is widely used in actual life, multi-depot heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (MDHIVRPSTW) mathematical model is established. An improved ant colony optimization (IACO) is proposed for solving this model. Firstly, MDHIVRPSTW was transferred into different groups according to nearest depot method, then constructing the initial route by scanning algorithm (SA). Secondly, genetic operators were introduced, and then adjusting crossover probability and mutation probability adaptively in order to improve the global search ability of the algorithm. Moreover, smooth mechanism was used to improve the performance of ant colony optimization (ACO). Finally, 3-opt strategy was used to improve the local search ability. The proposed IACO has been tested on a 32-customer instance which was generated randomly. The experimental results show that IACO is superior to other three algorithms in terms of convergence speed and solution quality, thus the proposed method is effective and feasible, and the proposed model is better than conventional model.

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