Salhi, S. and Currie, R. (2009) Heuristics are here to help your online vehicle scheduling. OR Insight, 22 (2). pp. 88-104.
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| Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/ori.2008.7 |
Abstract
An application of real-time changes in scheduling deliveries of road-making materials is conducted based on an implementation of a tabu search heuristic. This distribution problem deals with heterogeneous products and vehicles where the assignment of pickup points to requests needs also to be made. The problem is investigated as a full-load pickup and delivery problem with time windows. Online as well as offline experiments based on real data from a construction company in the United Kingdom are reported and discussed. Various practical issues that arise in this real-time logistical problem are also discussed and analysed. Interesting and encouraging results are reported.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | real-time routing, logistics, heuristic, case study |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Operations Research - Theory |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School > Management Science |
| Depositing User: | Said Salhi |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2009 07:26 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2009 07:26 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22826 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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