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A variable neighborhood-based heuristic for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem

Imran, Arif, Salhi, Said, Wassan, Niaz A. (2009) A variable neighborhood-based heuristic for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 197 (2). pp. 509-518. ISSN 0377-2217. (doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2008.07.022) (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:23453)

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Abstract

The heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem is investigated using some adaptations of the variable neighborhood search (VNS). The initial solution is obtained by Dijkstra's algorithm based on a cost network constructed by the sweep algorithm and the 2-opt. Our VNS algorithm uses several neighborhoods which are adapted for this problem. In addition, a number of local search methods together with a diversification procedure are used. Two VNS variants, which differ in the order the diversification and Dijkstra's algorithm are used, are implemented. Both variants appear to be competitive and produce new best results when tested on the data sets from the literature. We also constructed larger data sets for which benchmarking results are provided for future comparison.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.07.022
Uncontrolled keywords: Meta-heuristic; Routing; Heterogeneous fleet; Variable neighborhood
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Q Science > Operations Research - Theory
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Funders: National Institute of Technology (https://ror.org/03bqt8z64)
Depositing User: Said Salhi
Date Deposited: 08 Dec 2009 14:01 UTC
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2023 15:04 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/23453 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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