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Solution approaches for multi-workday vehicle routing problem with manual unloading

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  • Tarit Rattanamanee
  • Suebsak Nanthavanij
  • Aussadavut Dumrongsiri

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The daily delivery routes and carried loads of vehicles are determined for a multi-workday planning period. Upon arrival at customer locations, workers, who are pre-assigned to vehicles, must perform manual unloading of goods. The multi-workday vehicle routing problem (MW-VRP) with manual unloading is solved using three solution approaches, namely, minimum-distance fixed-route, minimum-distance varying-route and workload-balanced varying-route. The total travel distances of vehicles and average percent residual energies among workers are determined and compared among the three approaches. The results show that the MW-VRP which considers the physical workloads that workers have to endure each workday throughout the planning period can help to distribute daily manual handling tasks more evenly among workers.

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  • Tarit Rattanamanee & Suebsak Nanthavanij & Aussadavut Dumrongsiri, 2021. "Solution approaches for multi-workday vehicle routing problem with manual unloading," International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 39(3), pages 340-360.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:39:y:2021:i:3:p:340-360
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