scholarly journals A granular tabu search for the refrigerated vehicle routing problem with homogeneous fleet

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Willmer Escobar ◽  
José Luis Ramírez Duque ◽  
Rafael García-Cáceres

The Refrigerated Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (RCVRP) considers a homogeneous fleet with a refrigerated system to decide the selection of routes to be performed according to customers' requirements. The aim is to keep the energy consumption of the routes as low as possible. We use a thermodynamic model to understand the unloading of products from trucks and the variables' efficiency, such as the temperature during the day influencing energy consumption. By considering various neighborhoods and a shaking procedure, this paper proposes a Granular Tabu Search scheme to solve the RCVRP. Computational tests using adapted benchmark instances from the literature demonstrate that the suggested method delivers high-quality solutions within short computing times, illustrating the refrigeration system's effect on routing decisions.

2013 ◽  
Vol 859 ◽  
pp. 395-398
Author(s):  
Chun Yu Ren

This paper studies the vehicle routing problem. According to the characteristics of model, new tabu search algorithm is used to get the optimization solution. It applies newly improved insertion method to construct initial solution, to improve the feasibility of the solution; designs dual layered random operation to construct its neighborhood; applies auto adaptive tabu length to control the searching capability dynamically. At last, it uses simulated experiments to prove the effectiveness and feasibility of this algorithm, and provides clues for massively solving practical problems.


In this paper a new genetic algorithm is developed for solving capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) in situations where demand is unknown till the beginning of the trip. In these situations it is not possible normal metaheuristics due to time constraints. The new method proposed uses a new genetic algorithm based on modified sweep algorithm that produces a solution with the least number of vehicles, in a relatively short amount of time. The objective of having least number of vehicles is achieved by loading the vehicles nearly to their full capacity, by skipping some of the customers. The reduction in processing time is achieved by restricting the number of chromosomes to just one. This method is tested on 3 sets of standard benchmark instances (A, M, and G) found in the literature. The results are compared with the results from normal metaheuristic method which produces reasonably accurate results. The results indicate that whenever the number of customers and number of vehicles are large the new genetic algorithm provides a much better solution in terms of the CPU time without much increase in total distance traveled. If time permits the output from this method can be further improved by using normal established metaheuristics to get better solution


2017 ◽  
Vol 257 (3) ◽  
pp. 845-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Uchoa ◽  
Diego Pecin ◽  
Artur Pessoa ◽  
Marcus Poggi ◽  
Thibaut Vidal ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulistiono Sulistiono ◽  
Noor Saif Muhammad Mussafi

Pendistribusian produk berperan penting dalam dunia industri. Salah satu usaha yang dapat dilakukan perusahaan untuk mengoptimalkan pendistribusian produk adalah meminimalkan biaya tranportasi melalui penentuan rute optimal kendaraan yang disebut dengan VRP (Vehicle Routing Problem). Tujuan dari VRP adalah menentukan rute optimal yaitu rute dengan jarak minimum untuk mendistribusikan produk kepada konsumen. Salah satu variasi VRP adalah Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), yaitu VRP dengan kendala kapasitas kendaraan. Kasus CVRP tersebut dapat diselesaikan dengan menggunakan Algoritma Tabu Search. Cara kerja Algoritma Tabu Search dimulai dengan penentuan initial solution menggunakan Nearest Neighbor,  evaluasi move menggunakan metode 2-Opt, Relocated, dan Exchange, update Tabu List,  kemudian apabila kriteria pemberhentian terpenuhi maka proses Algoritma Tabu Search berhenti jika tidak, maka kembali pada evaluasi move. Proses perhitungan Algoritma Tabu Search dilakukan secara manual dan rancang bangun menggunakan MATLAB pada PT Sinergi Bio Natural. Berdasarkan proses perhitungan manual dan rancang bangun diperoleh dua solusi optimal yaitu rute dengan jarak terpendek dengan total jarak optimal sebesar 101,1 km.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meryem Ammi ◽  
Salim Chikhi

In this work the authors present a new approach based on the cooperation of many variants of metaheuristics in order to solve the large existing benchmark instances of the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP). The proposed method follows the parallel pattern of the generalized island model (GIM). Consequently, the used metaheuristics, namely genetic algorithm (GA), the ant colony optimization (ACO), and the first application of the penguin optimization search (PEO) have been used to handle the large size of the CVRP. These optimization processes have been put over numerous islands that communicate via the process of exchanging solutions. Comparative studies as well as tests over the existing benchmark instances have been reported to prove the efficiency of the proposed approach.


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