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Heuristics are here to help your online vehicle scheduling

Salhi, Said, Currie, Robert H. (2009) Heuristics are here to help your online vehicle scheduling. OR Insight, 22 (2). pp. 88-104. (doi:10.1057/ori.2008.7) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:22826)

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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
DOI/Identification number: 10.1057/ori.2008.7
Uncontrolled keywords: real-time routing, logistics, heuristic, case study
Subjects: Q Science > Operations Research - Theory
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: Said Salhi
Date Deposited: 29 Sep 2009 07:26 UTC
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2023 15:04 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/22826 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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