[PDF] Top 20 13 Logistics: The Vehicle Routing Problem

... 13.1 The Vehicle Routing Problem 177 The contribution of this work is then to define a powerful yet simple cMA capable of competing with the best known approaches for solving ... See full document

... line the process can be described as follows (see ...of the procedure described ...to the ERP. Typically the order is for the next day although it can be for any future ...moment, ... See full document

... view, the problem being tackled applies to specific sectors that bene- fit from planning their routes according to the previously defined ...with the customer and operate on a tight delivery ... See full document

... follows the route assigned to it by a vehicle rout- ing problem (VRP) ...when the activities cycle exceeds regular working hours, the vehicle will return to the warehouse ... See full document

... Urban logistics companies are seeking solutions to reduce their cost, but must of them are not paying attention to environmental ...to the belief that environmentally friendly solutions are more ...with ... See full document

... of the MDVRPB is to determine the routes to be performed from the selected depots to the customers by a fleet of homogeneous vehicles in order to satisfy the demand of the ... See full document

... on the movement of larger trucks. Thus, logistics companies developed a two level logistics strategy based on Urban Distribution Centers (CDU) that receives larger trucks and split the cargo ... See full document

... in the literature, the application of DM to improve the results of evolutionary algorithms is still ...scarce. The DM module proposed corresponds to an intensification strategy, since it tries ... See full document

... formulate the VRPTW by considering the customers’ satisfaction. In the proposed mathematical problem, the first objective function was to minimize the sum of a fixed cost related ... See full document

... by the actual scenario of urban mobility. The transport of passengers by charter is an alternative to improve the quality of urban mobility avoiding traffic jam and reducing ...to the company ... See full document

... with the frequency it has appeared in the solutions already ana- ...of the average cost of the route in which the pattern was found so as to improve the robustness of the ... See full document

... edges. The task of network clustering is to divide a network into different clusters based on certain ...community. The LRP combines two classical planning tasks in logistics, that is, optimally ... See full document

... addresses the vehicle routing problem with time windows and multiple deliverymen, a variant of the vehicle routing problem which includes the decision of ... See full document

... a vehicle routing with backup provisioning approach is proposed for sustainable urban mobility with efficient use of ...mathematically the problem, a heuristic is proposed that allows ... See full document

... found the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), is the name of a problems class to define a sequence of visits to customers ... See full document

... In the analysis the limited ability of particular vehicle types to serve particular demand types has been taken into ...details the maximum annual mileage of vehicles of particular types has ... See full document

... each vehicle in a fleet that must serve a series of consumers with known ...for the problem of routing with a heterogeneous fleet, with the objective of determining the optimal ... See full document

... of the tabu list size tls called Threshold. The variation of this parameter improves the exploration of the search space by varying the compromise between intensification and ... See full document

... studies the implementation of heuristics and scatter search (SS) metaheuristic in a real heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with time windows and split deliveries (HFVRPTWSD) in ...In ... See full document

... addresses the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with two-dimensional loading ...items, the problem aims to define minimum cost routes for a fleet of homogeneous vehicles that ... See full document