A tabu search heuristic for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem

被引:148
作者
Gendreau, M
Laporte, G
Musaraganyi, C
Taillard, ÉD
机构
[1] Univ Montreal, Ctr Rech Transports, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[2] Univ Montreal, Dept Informat & Rech Operat, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[3] Ecole Hautes Etud Commerciales, Serv Enseignement Methodes Quantitat Gest, Montreal, PQ H3T 2A7, Canada
[4] Free Univ Brussels, Serv Math Gest, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[5] IDSIA, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem; fleet mix; tabu search heuristic;
D O I
10.1016/S0305-0548(98)00100-2
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
The Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem (HVRP) is a variant of the classical Vehicle Routing Problem in which customers are served by a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles with various capacities, fixed costs, and variable costs. This article describes a tabu search heuristic for the HVRP. On a set of benchmark instances, it consistently produces high-quality solutions, including several new best-known solutions.
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页码:1153 / 1173
页数:21
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