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Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 3
Big Island, Hawaii
January 03-January 06
ISBN: 0-7695-2268-8
Andrew Lim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xingwen Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in logistics. The problem is to serve a number of customers at minimum cost without violating the customers' time window constraints and the vehicle capacity constraint. The m-VRPTW is a variant of the VRPTW in which a limited number of vehicles is available. A feasible solution to m-VRPTW may contain some unserved customers due to the insufficiency of vehicles. The primary objective of m-VRPTW is to maximize the number of customers served. In this paper, we propose a two-stage algorithm for the m-VRPTW. The algorithm first maximizes the number of customers served with an Ejection Pool to hold temporarily unserved customers. Then it minimizes the total travel distance using a multi-start iterated hill-climbing algorithm with classical and new operators including Generalized Ejection Chains. The experimental results showed consistently good performance of the algorithm when compared with other methods.
Citation:
Andrew Lim, Xingwen Zhang, "A Two-Stage Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and a Limited Number of Vehicles," hicss, vol. 3, pp.82c, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 3, 2005
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