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A practical solution approach for the green vehicle routing problem

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  • Leggieri, Valeria
  • Haouari, Mohamed

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Green vehicle routing (GVRP) is an active research area that is concerned with the development and analysis of distribution activities with eco-friendly vehicles. We propose a practical solution approach for the GVRP that uses a mixed-integer linear formulation and a reduction procedure. The newly formulation offers two significant advantages: compactness and flexibility. We provide empirical evidence that the formulation and the reduction procedure enable to derive optimal solutions for medium-sized instances using a general-purpose solver. We show that the proposed exact approach consistently outperforms a state-of-the-art branch-and-cut algorithm and constitutes an appealing and practical alternative for optimally solving GVRPs.

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  • Leggieri, Valeria & Haouari, Mohamed, 2017. "A practical solution approach for the green vehicle routing problem," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 97-112.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transe:v:104:y:2017:i:c:p:97-112
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2017.06.003
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