scholarly journals Comparative Study of Algorithms Metaheuristics Based Applied to the Solution of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Francisco Sandoya Sánchez ◽  
Carmen Andrea Letamendi Lazo ◽  
Fanny Yamel Sanabria Quiñónez
Keyword(s):  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Economic Impact Analysis ◽  
Transportation Sector ◽  
Capacitated Vehicle

This chapter presents the best-known heuristics and metaheuristics that are applied to solve the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP), which is the generalization of the TSP, in which the nodes are visited by more than one route. To find out which algorithm obtains better results, there are 30 test instances used, which are grouped into 3 sets of problems according to the position of the nodes. The study begins with an economic impact analysis of the transportation sector in companies, which represents up to 20% of the final cost of the product. This case study focuses on the CVRP for its acronym capacitated vehicle routing problem, analyzing the best-known heuristics such as Clarke & Wright and sweep, and the algorithms GRASP and simulated annealing metaheuristics based.

scholarly journals Simulated annealing algorithm for solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem: a case study of pharmaceutical distribution

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anak Agung Ngurah Perwira Redi ◽  
Fiki Rohmatul Maula ◽  
Fairuz Kumari ◽  
Natasha Utami Syaveyenda ◽  
Nanda Ruswandi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Simulated Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Pharmaceutical Distribution ◽  
Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Capacitated Vehicle

This study aims to find a set of vehicles routes with the minimum total transportation time for pharmaceutical distribution at PT. XYZ in West Jakarta. The problem is modeled as the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP). The CVRP is known as an NP-Hard problem. Therefore, a simulated annealing (SA) heuristic is proposed. First, the proposed SA performance is compared with the performance of the algorithm form previous studies to solve CVRP. It is shown that the proposed SA is useful in solving CVRP benchmark instances. Then, the SA algorithm is compared to a commonly used heuristic known as the nearest neighborhood heuristics for the case study dataset. The results show that the simulated Annealing and the nearest neighbor algorithm is performing well based on the percentage differences between each algorithm with the optimal solution are 0.03% and 5.50%, respectively. Thus, the simulated annealing algorithm provides a better result compared to the nearest neighbour algorithm. Furthermore, the proposed simulated annealing algorithm can find the solution as same as the exact method quite consistently. This study has shown that the simulated annealing algorithm provides an excellent solution quality for the problem.

scholarly journals Simultaneous Multi-Start Simulated Annealing for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arman Davtyan ◽  
Suren Khachatryan
Keyword(s):  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Combinatorial Optimization ◽  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Metaheuristic Algorithm ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Capacitated Vehicle

A new metaheuristic algorithm is proposed for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. CVRP is one of the fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization that deals with transport route minimization. The algorithm combines Simulated Annealing, multi-start and simultaneous computing techniques. A series of computational tests are conducted on several CVRP benchmarks and near-optimal solutions are obtained. The results indicate superior performance compared with Simulated Annealing

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