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Incorporating Vehicle Routing into the Vehicle Fleet Composition Problem

Salhi, Said, Rand, Graham K. (1993) Incorporating Vehicle Routing into the Vehicle Fleet Composition Problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 66 (3). pp. 313-330. ISSN 0377-2217. (doi:10.1016/0377-2217(93)90220-H) (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:5261)

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Abstract

An efficient heuristic for determining the composition of a vehicle fleet is developed which considers delivery routes whilst evaluating fleet mixes. The aim is to include a perturbation procedure within existing or constructed routes to reduce the total cost of routing and acquisition by improving the utilisation of the vehicles. This approach has been tested on twenty problems given in the literature and new best results are reported here. An extensive literature review is also given.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/0377-2217(93)90220-H
Uncontrolled keywords: Vehicle routine; Vehicle fleet composition; Heuristics; Distribution
Subjects: Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: Said Salhi
Date Deposited: 30 Sep 2009 17:04 UTC
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2023 15:04 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/5261 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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