DISTRIBUTED ARRIVAL TIME CONTROL FOR VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS WITH TIME WINDOWS

Seok Gi Lee, Vittal Prabhu

2009

Abstract

Competitiveness of a supply chains depends significantly on distribution center operations because it determines responsiveness and timeliness of deliveries to customers. This paper proposes a control algorithm for routing multiple out-bound trucks to customers spread over a wide geographical area, each occupying different volume in a truck, and having a different delivery time-window. Overall operations are also constrained by geographical locations of the customers in various zones and dissimilar truck capacities. Performance of the algorithm is tested using data from a distribution center located in Latin America.

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in Harvard Style

Gi Lee S. and Prabhu V. (2009). DISTRIBUTED ARRIVAL TIME CONTROL FOR VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS WITH TIME WINDOWS . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8111-99-9, pages 246-251. DOI: 10.5220/0002211802460251


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco09,
author={Seok Gi Lee and Vittal Prabhu},
title={DISTRIBUTED ARRIVAL TIME CONTROL FOR VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS WITH TIME WINDOWS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,},
year={2009},
pages={246-251},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002211802460251},
isbn={978-989-8111-99-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,
TI - DISTRIBUTED ARRIVAL TIME CONTROL FOR VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS WITH TIME WINDOWS
SN - 978-989-8111-99-9
AU - Gi Lee S.
AU - Prabhu V.
PY - 2009
SP - 246
EP - 251
DO - 10.5220/0002211802460251