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A Heuristic for Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Deadline  

Kang Chung-Sang (THE HITE CO., LTD.)
Lee Jun-Su (Dept. of Industrial information & system Eng., Chonbuk National Uiversity)
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Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering / v.28, no.2, 2005 , pp. 8-17 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper dealt with a kind of heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with known demand and time deadline of customers. The customers are supposed to have one of tight deadline and loose deadline. The demand of customers with tight deadline must be fulfilled in the deadline. However, the late delivery is allowed to customers with loose deadline. That is, the paper suggests a model to minimize total acquisition cost, total travel distance and total violation time for a fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem with time deadline, and proposes a heuristic algorithm for the model. The proposed algorithm consists of two phases, i.e. generation of an initial solution and improvement of the current solution. An initial solution is generated based on a modified insertion heuristic and iterative Improvement procedure is accomplished using neighborhood generation methods such as swap and reallocation. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using a well known numerical example.
Keywords
Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem; Heuristic Method; Guided Local Search;
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