• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.27-37
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• 2012

This paper is motivated by a military cargo-plane routing problem which is a pickup-and-delivery problem in which load splits and node revisits are allowed (PDPLS). Although this recent evolution of a VRP-model enhances the efficiency of routing, a solution method is more of a challenge since the node revisits entail closed walks in modeling vehicle routes. For such a case, even a compact IP-formulation is not available and an effective method had been lacking until Nowak et al. (2008b) proposed a heuristic based on a tabu search. Their method provides very reasonable solu-tions as demonstrated by the experiments not only in their paper (Nowak et al., 2008b) but also in ours. However, the computation time seems intensive especially for the class of problems with dynamic transportation requests, including the military cargo-plane routing problem. This paper proposes a more scalable algorithm hybridizing a tabu search for pricing subproblem paused as a single-vehicle routing problem, with a column generation approach based on Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition. As tested on a wide variety of instances, our algorithm produces, in average, a solution of an equiva-lent quality in 10~20% of the computation time of the previous method.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.138-145
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• 2018

In the field of optimization, many studies have been performed on various types of Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for a long time. A variety of models have been derived to extend the basic VRP model, to consider multiple truck terminal, multiple pickup and delivery, and time windows characteristics. A lot of research has been performed to find better solutions in a reasonable time for these models with heuristic approaches. In this paper, by considering realtime traffic characteristics in Map Navigation environment, we proposed a method to manage realistic optimal path allocation for the logistics trucks and cargoes, which are dispersed, in order to realize the realistic cargo mixing allowance and time constraint enforcement which were required as the most important points for an online logistics brokerage service company. Then we developed a prototype system that can support above functionality together with delivery status monitoring on Map Navigation environment. First, through Map Navigation system, we derived information such as navigation-based travel time required for logistics allocation scheduling based on multiple terminal multiple pickup and delivery models with time constraints. Especially, the travel time can be actually obtained by using the Map Navigation system by reflecting the road situation and traffic. Second, we made a mathematical model for optimal path allocation using the derived information, and solved it using an optimization solver. Third, we constructed the prototype system to provide the proposed method together with realtime logistics monitoring by arranging the allocation results in the Map Navigation environment.

• IE interfaces
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.557-566
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• 1999

This paper considers a door-to-door service system in which pickups or deliveries are performed by a trip of a single vehicle. Each customer request specifies the quantity of the load transported, the location, and the time window within which it is to be picked up or delivered. Since the system is demand responsive, i.e., new or emergent requests become available in real-time, the current vehicle route has to be reconstructed to include these requests. In this case, only continuous vehicle tracking enables control over the requests and ensures that the requests are satisfied on time. This paper suggests a pilot pickup/delivery management system integrating a geographic information system(GIS) and a global position system(GPS) to efficiently deal with such a dynamic environment. The GIS offers a way of displaying the vehicle route on digital maps for the region under concerned. Also displayed is the current location of the vehicle obtained from the GPS. A heuristic algorithm is used to dynamically determine the vehicle route. A practical example is provided to show the feasibility of the system.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.275-288
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• 1997

The container transportation problem is a kind of generalized pickup and delivery problem(GPDP), and a typical NP-hard problem of which polynomial algorithm has not yet been developed. In this problem, trucks have to transport containers from origins to destinations, while have to satisfy several restrictions such as request time, cargo closing time, driver's break time. In this paper, we present a straightforward heuristic and a user-interactive truck dispatching system which supports decision makers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.285-288
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• 2000

본 연구는 Heuristic 알고리즘 및 유전자알고리즘(GA)을 이용하여 수거(Pickup) 및 배달(Delivery)을 동시에 고려한 통합차량운송계획 모델의 개발이다. 본 연구는 기존의 TSP의 문제를 확장 응용하였으며, 이는 한 Route에서 수거지(Origin)와 운반지(Destination)를 포함하는 수요들을 만족하도록 운반되어야 하는 문제이다. 이러한 통합차량경로계획문제(VRP Vehicle Routing Problem)를 해결하기 위한 접근방법으로 Heuristic 방법을 사용하였으며, 기존의 Saving 알고리즘과 유전자알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm)의 각종 연산자(Operators)들을 계산하여 사용한 TSP문제의 해를 본 연구의 해의 초기해로 사용하였으며 수거 및 배달문제의 특성을 고려하여 해를 구하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 다양한 운송환경에서, 거리산정방법, 가용운송장비 대수, 운송시간의 제한, 물류센터 및 운송지점의 위치 및 수요량 등 다양한 인자들을 고려한 통합시스템으로 프로그램을 개발하고 Sample 문제를 통하여 응용결과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 차량용량이 같지 않은 복수의 다른 종류의 차량을 고려하여, 차량이 이동하면서 배달과 수거를 동시에 수행하고 수거지점으로부터 화물을 수거하여 차고지로 운송하는 귀로 화물(Backhauls)을 갖는 PDP(Pickup and Delivery Problem)문제를 그 연구 대상으로 한다. 동시에 차량을 통해 이동되는 품목이 단일 품목이 아니고, 배달 및 수거시간제약조건을 갖는 다품목 시간제약 수송차량 배차문제를 Time-space network를 이용하여 정수선형계획문제로 정식화한다. 이를 최적화 S/W LINGO를 이용하여 위의 모든 제약조건을 만족하면서 운용되는 차량수와 차량의 이동경로를 최소화하는 해를 구하고, 분석한 내용을 보여주고자 한다. 덧붙여 위 문제의 입·출력자료를 데이터베이스화하여 지리정보시스템(Geographic Information System : GIS)과 통합한 차량운행경로결정 지원시스템을 구축하기 위한 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.284-284
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• 2000

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.554-561
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• 2013

As a special topic of the vehicle routing problems (VRP), VRPSDP extends the vehicle routing problem as considering simultaneous pickup and delivery for goods. The past studies have mainly dealt with a only weight constraint of a loading capacity for heterogeneous products. However. this study suggests VRPSDP considering separate loading area according to characteristics of loading species. The objective is to design a set of minimum distance routes for the vehicle routing assignment with independent capacity for heterogeneous species. And then we present a another HVRPSDP model which is easy to utilizes in a unique circumstance that is a guarantee of executing a task simultaneously from the various areas under restricted time and raising an application of vehicles that returns at the depot for the next mission like the military group. The optimal results of the suggested mathematical models are solved by the ILOG CPLEX software ver. 12.4 that is provided by IBM company.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.393-418
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• 2023

Drones are increasingly used in logistics delivery due to their low cost, high-speed and straight-line flight. Considering the small cargo capacity, limited endurance and other factors, this paper optimized the pickup and delivery vehicle routing problem with time windows in the mode of "truck+drone". A mixed integer programming model with the objective of minimizing transportation cost was proposed and an improved adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm is designed to solve the problem. In this algorithm, the performance of the algorithm is improved by designing various efficient destroy operators and repair operators based on the characteristics of the model and introducing a simulated annealing strategy to avoid falling into local optimum solutions. The effectiveness of the model and the algorithm is verified through the numerical experiments, and the impact of the "truck+drone" on the route cost is analyzed, the result of this study provides a decision basis for the route planning of "truck+drone" mode delivery.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.163-171
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• 2014

Under amazing increase in markets and certain demand on qualified service in the delivery system, global logistic optimization is becoming a keen interest to provide an essential infrastructure coping with modern competitive prospects. As a key technology for such deployment, we have been engaged in the practical studies on vehicle routing problem (VRP) in terms of Weber model, and developed a hybrid approach of meta-heuristic methods and the graph algorithm of minimum cost flow problem. This paper extends such idea to multi-depot VRP so that we can give a more general framework available for various real world applications including those in green or low carbon logistics. We show the developed procedure can handle various types of problem, i.e., delivery, direct pickup, and drop by pickup problems in a common framework. Numerical experiments have been carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Moreover, to enhance usability of the method, Google Maps API is applied to retrieve real distance data and visualize the numerical result on the map.