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Collaborative Vehicle Routing Problem in the Urban Ring Logistics Network under the COVID-19 Epidemic

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  • Wenjia Zheng
  • Zhongyu Wang
  • Liucheng Sun

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This paper explored the problem of collaborative vehicle routing in the urban ring logistics network (Co-VRP-URLN) during the COVID-19 epidemic. According to the characteristics of urban distribution and the restriction of traffic all over China during this period, this study mainly considers a common distribution mode of order exchange through the outer ring of the city and then solves the vehicle routing problem of distribution, which belongs to a special multidepot vehicle routing problem with time windows. According to the definition of the problem, the corresponding mixed-integer programming problem of multicommodity flow is established, and the variable neighborhood search algorithm is designed in detail to solve it. The effectiveness of the algorithm is verified by a standard example, and the benefits of joint distribution are revealed through the improved standard example. At last, the influence of different distribution centers is compared. The results show that this model can significantly improve the distribution efficiency within the city under the restriction of traffic.

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  • Wenjia Zheng & Zhongyu Wang & Liucheng Sun, 2021. "Collaborative Vehicle Routing Problem in the Urban Ring Logistics Network under the COVID-19 Epidemic," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2021, pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:5539762
    DOI: 10.1155/2021/5539762
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