Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Fuel Consumption Minimizing

Seyed Farid Ghannadpour, Mohsen Hooshfar

2016

Abstract

Transportation often represents the most important single element in logistics costs and its reduction and finding the best routes that a vehicle should follow through a network is an important decision. the energy cost is a significant part of total transportation cost and it is important to improve the operational efficiency by decreasing energy consumption. Unlike most of the studies trying to minimize the cost by minimizing overall travelling distance, the energy minimizing which meets the latest requirements of green logistics, is considered in this paper. the customers' priority for servicing is considered as well. Besides, the model is interpreted as multi-objective optimization where, the energy consumed and the total fleet are minimized and the total satisfaction rates of customers is maximized. A new solution based on the evolutionary algorithm is proposed and its performance is compared with the CPLEX Solver. Results illustrate the efficiency and effectiveness of proposed approach.

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Ghannadpour S. and Hooshfar M. (2016). Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Fuel Consumption Minimizing . In Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-171-7, pages 92-99. DOI: 10.5220/0005657900920099


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@conference{icores16,
author={Seyed Farid Ghannadpour and Mohsen Hooshfar},
title={Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Fuel Consumption Minimizing},
booktitle={Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2016},
pages={92-99},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005657900920099},
isbn={978-989-758-171-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Fuel Consumption Minimizing
SN - 978-989-758-171-7
AU - Ghannadpour S.
AU - Hooshfar M.
PY - 2016
SP - 92
EP - 99
DO - 10.5220/0005657900920099