Iterated Local Search for a Vehicle Routing Problem with Synchronization Constraints

Nacima Labadie, Christian Prins, Yanyan Yang

2014

Abstract

This paper deals with vehicle routing problem (VRP) with synchronization constraints. This problem consists in determining a least-cost set of routes to serve customers who may require several synchronized visits. The main contribution of the paper is: 1) it presents a definition and a classification of different types of synchronization constraints considered in the VRP literature; 2) it describes a variant of vehicle routing problem with synchronization constraints which is formulated as a mixed integer programming model; 3) finally, it provides a constructive heuristics and an iterated local search metaheuristic to solve the considered problem. The performance of the proposed approaches is evaluated small and medium sized instances.

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Labadie N., Prins C. and Yang Y. (2014). Iterated Local Search for a Vehicle Routing Problem with Synchronization Constraints . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-017-8, pages 257-263. DOI: 10.5220/0004837502570263


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@conference{icores14,
author={Nacima Labadie and Christian Prins and Yanyan Yang},
title={Iterated Local Search for a Vehicle Routing Problem with Synchronization Constraints},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2014},
pages={257-263},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004837502570263},
isbn={978-989-758-017-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Iterated Local Search for a Vehicle Routing Problem with Synchronization Constraints
SN - 978-989-758-017-8
AU - Labadie N.
AU - Prins C.
AU - Yang Y.
PY - 2014
SP - 257
EP - 263
DO - 10.5220/0004837502570263