The Vehicle Routing Problem with Divisible Deliveries and Pickups

Nagy, Gábor, Wassan, Niaz A., Speranza, M. Grazia, Archetti, Claudia (2015) The Vehicle Routing Problem with Divisible Deliveries and Pickups. Transportation Science, . pp. 271-294. ISSN 0041-1655. (doi:10.1287/trsc.2013.0501)

Abstract

The vehicle routing problem with divisible deliveries and pickups is a new and interesting model within reverse logistics. Each customer may have a pickup and delivery demand that have to be served with capacitated vehicles. The pickup and the delivery quantities may be served, if beneficial, in two separate visits. The model is placed in the context of other delivery and pickup problems and formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming problem. In this paper, we study the savings that can be achieved by allowing the pickup and delivery quantities to be served separately with respect to the case where the quantities have to be served simultaneously. Both exact and heuristic results are analysed in depth for a better understanding of the problem structure and an average estimation of the savings due to the possibility of serving pickup and delivery quantities separately.

Item Type:	Article
DOI/Identification number:	10.1287/trsc.2013.0501
Uncontrolled keywords:	vehicle routing; divisible deliveries and pickups; metaheuristics; tabu search
Subjects:	Q Science > Operations Research - Theory
Divisions:	Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School > Management Science Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Business School > Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Organisation (CLHO)
Depositing User:	Gabor Nagy
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2015 21:09 UTC
Last Modified:	29 May 2019 14:43 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/49081 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)