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District design for arc-routing applications

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  • L Muyldermans

    (Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A)

  • D Cattrysse

    (Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A)

  • D Van Oudheusden

    (Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A)

Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of district design for the organisation of arc-routing activities. In particular, the focus is on operations like winter gritting and road maintenance. The problem involves how to allocate the road network edges to a set of depots with given locations. The collection of edges assigned to a facility forms a district in which routes have to be designed that start and end at the facility. Apart from the ability to support good arc routing, well-designed districts for road-maintenance operations should have the road network to be serviced connected and should define clear geographical boundaries. We present three districting heuristics and evaluate the quality of the partitions by solving capacitated arc routing problems in the districts, and by comparing the solution values with a multi-depot CARP cutting plane lower bound. Our experiments reveal that based on global information about the distribution system (ie the number of facilities or districts, the average edge demand and the vehicle capacity) and by using simple guidelines, an adequate districting policy may be selected.

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  • L Muyldermans & D Cattrysse & D Van Oudheusden, 2003. "District design for arc-routing applications," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 54(11), pages 1209-1221, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:54:y:2003:i:11:d:10.1057_palgrave.jors.2601626
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601626
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