• Title/Summary/Keyword: VRP(Vehicle Routing Problem)

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A 3-D Genetic Algorithm for Finding the Number of Vehicles in VRPTW

  • Paik, Si-Hyun;Ko, Young-Min;Kim, Nae-Heon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.22 no.53
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 1999
  • The problem to be studied here is the minimization of the total travel distance and the number of vehicles used for delivering goods to customers. Vehicle routes must also satisfy a variety of constraints such as fixed vehicle capacity, allowed operating time. Genetic algorithm to solve the VRPTW with heterogeneous fleet is presented. The chromosome of the proposed GA in this study has the 3-dimension. We propose GA that has the cubic-chromosome for VRPTW with heterogeneous fleet. The newly suggested ‘Cubic-GA (or 3-D GA)’ in this paper means the 2-D GA with GLS(Genetic Local Search) algorithms and is quite flexible. To evaluate the performance of the algorithm, we apply it to the Solomon's VRPTW instances. It produces a set of good routes and the reasonable number of vehicles.

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Modeling Vehicle Routing Problem with Pair Pickup-Delivery Operations

  • Kim, Hwan-Seong;Tran-Ngoc, Hoang-Son
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.149-150
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    • 2009
  • The problem of vehicle routing problem(VRP) with pair operations of pick up and delivery are well-known in real applications in logistics networks, as in planning the routes for automatic guided vehicles(AGVs) in an automatic container terminal(ACT), warehouses or in some just-in-time services. This paper will present a formulation to modeling the problem mathematically which can be used to generate optimal routes of carried vehicles in the field to reduce the incurred cost of moving goods. This selected model could be used in (semi-)automatic short-term planning systems for vehicle fleet working in ACT, or in modern warehouses which the long list of requests is parted and sorted in preprocessing orders systems.

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Integrated Heuristic Model for Vehicle Routing Problem Based on Genetic Algorithm (유전자알고리즘 및 발견적방법을 이용한 통합차량운송계획 모델)

  • 황흥석
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 1999
  • 본 연구는 Heuristic 알고리즘 및 유전자알고리즘(GA)을 이용하여 3단계의 통합차량운송계획 모델의 개발이다. 차량경로문제(VRP : Vehicle Routing Problem)를 해결하기 위한 접근방법으로 기존의 Saving 알고리즘을 개선하여 사용하였으며 유전자 알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm)의 각종 연산자 (Operators)들을 계산하여 사용하였다. 본 모델은 다음 3단계의 접근방법을 사용하였다 ; 1) 다 물류 센터의 문제해결을 위한 영역활당(Sector Clustering) 모델, 2) 경로계획모델(VRP Model), 및 3) 최적 운송계획모델(GA-TSP Model). 본 모델들을 다양한 운송환경에서, 거리산정방법, 가용운송장비 대수, 운송시간의 제한, 물류센터 및 운송지점의 위치 및 수요량 등 다양한 파라메터들을 고려한 통합시스템으로 3개의 Component로 구성된 GUI-Type 프로그램을 개발하고 Sample 응용결과를 보였으며 기존의 모델들 보다 우수한 결과를 보였다.

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An approach for inventory routing problem using TOC in supply chain (공급사슬 환경에서 제약이론을 적용한 재고 보충 및 차량경로문제 결정)

  • Kim Gang-Tae;Lee Yeong-Hae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2006.05a
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2006
  • There was a lot of research to integration of the transshipment and inventory problem in supply chain. Such a integration of inventory and transshipment problem called IRP (Inventory Routing Problem). We consider a distribution problem in which a set of products has to be shipped from a supplier to several retailers in a given planning horizon. Transshipment from the supplier to the retailer is performed by vehicles of limited capacity. Each retailer determines replenishment leadtime and order quantity with buffer management. A supplier determines optimal vehicle routing in supply chain. We suggest a heuristic algorithm which be used TOC buffer management in a replenishment problem and a tabu search algorithm in VRP (Vehicle Routing Problem).

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A Vehicle Routing Problem Which Considers Traffic Situation by Service Time Zones (서비스 시간대별 교통상황을 고려한 차량경로문제)

  • Kim, Ki-Tae;Jeon, Geon-Wook
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.359-367
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    • 2009
  • The vehicle travel time between the demand points in downtown area is greatly influenced by complex road condition and traffic situation that change real time to various external environments. Most of research in the vehicle routing problems compose vehicle routes only considering travel distance and average vehicle speed between the demand points, however did not consider dynamic external environments such as traffic situation by service time zones. A realistic vehicle routing problem which considers traffic situation of smooth, delaying, and stagnating by three service time zones such as going to work, afternoon, and going home was suggested in this study. A mathematical programming model was suggested and it gives an optimal solution when using ILOG CPLEX. A hybrid genetic algorithm was also suggested to chooses a vehicle route considering traffic situation to minimize the total travel time. By comparing the result considering the traffic situation, the suggested algorithm gives better solution than existing algorithms.

Optimizing delivery routing problem for logistics companies based on Integer Linear Programming method

  • Cao, Ngoc-Anh;Phan, Thanh-Hang;Chinh, Nguyen Thi;Tran, Duc-Quynh;Nguyen, Ha-Nam;Trang, Ngo-Thi-Thu;Choi, Gyoo-Seok
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.212-221
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    • 2022
  • Currently, issues related to freight at Vietnamese logistics companies are becoming more and more urgent because of typical problems in Vietnam such as traffic, infrastructure, and application of information technology. This problem has been studied by applying many different approaches such as Integer Programming (LP), Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), hybrid, meta search, … In this paper, we applied the ILP model in order to deal with the VRP problem in a small size logistics company which is very popular in Vietnam. The experiments showed promising results with some optimal solutions with some small extra costs.

A Study on Methodology of the Snow Removal Operation of Air Wing Using Hybrid ACS Algorithm (하이브리드 ACS 알고리즘을 이용한 군 비행단 제설작전 방법연구)

  • Choi, Jung-Rock;Kim, Gak-Gyu;Lee, Sang-Heon
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2013
  • The vehicle routing problem (VRP) can be described as a problem to find the optimum traveling routes from one or several depot (s) to number of geographically scattered customers. This study executes a revised Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem (HVRP) to minimize the cost that needs to conduct efficiently the snow removal operations of Air Wing under available resources and limited operations time. For this HVRP, we model the algorithm of an hybrid Ant Colony System (ACS). In the initial step for finding a solution, the modeled algorithm applies various alterations of a parameter that presents an amount of pheromone coming out from ants. This improvement of the initial solution illustrates to affect to derive better result ultimately. The purpose of this study proves that the algorithm using Hybrid heuristic incorporated in tabu and ACS develops the early studies to search best solution.

An Efficient Heuristic to Solve Vehicle Routing Problem for Container Shuttle Service (컨테이너 셔틀 서비스를 위한 차량 경로 문제의 근사적 해법)

  • Shin, Jae-Young;Oh, Sung-Inn;Park, Jong-Won
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.33 no.8
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    • pp.583-588
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    • 2009
  • Generally, the container road transportation can be divided into three types; short distance, long distance and shuttle transportation. Specially, the shuttle service occurs several amounts of container which is same as O/D pairs. Also container vehicle can be divided into three types according to the chassis types of vehicle; only 20-feet container, only 40-feet container and combined chassis trailer. Combined chassis trailers can load two 20-feet containers or one 40-feet container. This paper deals with Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for delivering containers considering shuttle service. This problem is similar to the previously studied Shin and Oh (2008), but the characteristics of shuttle service must be considered additionally. We formulate the container shuttle transportation planning problem using combined chassis trailers based on VRP with pick-up and delivery which can visit each node more than one time, and propose an efficient solution procedure.

A Study on Area Division Method to use the Hour-based Vehicle Speed Information (시간단위 차량통행 속도정보의 활용을 위한 구역분할 방법의 연구)

  • Park, Sung-Mee;Moon, Gee-Ju
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.201-208
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    • 2010
  • This research is about developing an efficient solution procedure for the vehicle routing problem under varying vehicle moving speeds for hour-based time interval. Different moving speeds for every hour is too difficult condition to solve for this type of combinatorial optimization problem. A methodology to divide the 12 hour based time interval offered by government into 5 different time intervals and then divide delivery area into 12 small divisions first and then re-organizing them into 5 groups. Then vehicle moving speeds are no longer varying in each of the 5 divisions. Therefore, a typical TSP solution procedure may be applied to find the shortest path for all 5 divisions and then connect the local shortest paths to form a delivery path for whole area. Developed solution procedures are explained in detail with 60 points example.

Study on the Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Customer Restriction (고객 제한조건이 있는 복수 차량유형의 차량할당 및 경로선정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Heon;Lee, Jung-Man
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.228-239
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose a new conceptual HVRPCR(Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Customer Restriction) model including additional restrictions that are consisted of loadage limit and possible visit number of demand post in HVRP. We propose HVRPCR algorithm using the heuristic in order to solve speedily because VRP is NP-Hard and need many solution time. The proposed model is simulated with changing demand post location, demand weight, loading and possible visit number limitation. Results of the computational experiment are provided along with some analysis like travel cost reduction rate.