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New Heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem

In: Logistics Systems: Design and Optimization

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  • Jean-François Cordeau
  • Michel Gendreau
  • Alain Hertz
  • Gilbert Laporte
  • Jean-Sylvain Sormany

Abstract

This chapter reviews some of the best metaheuristics proposed in recent years for the Vehicle Routing Problem. These are based on local search, on population search and on learning mechanisms. Comparative computational results are provided on a set of 34 benchmark instances.

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  • Jean-François Cordeau & Michel Gendreau & Alain Hertz & Gilbert Laporte & Jean-Sylvain Sormany, 2005. "New Heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem," Springer Books, in: André Langevin & Diane Riopel (ed.), Logistics Systems: Design and Optimization, chapter 0, pages 279-297, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-24977-3_9
    DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24977-X_9
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    1. Michel Gendreau & Manuel Iori & Gilbert Laporte & Silvano Martello, 2006. "A Tabu Search Algorithm for a Routing and Container Loading Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 40(3), pages 342-350, August.
    2. Liu, Ran & Jiang, Zhibin, 2012. "The close–open mixed vehicle routing problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(2), pages 349-360.
    3. Oscar Dominguez & Angel Juan & Barry Barrios & Javier Faulin & Alba Agustin, 2016. "Using biased randomization for solving the two-dimensional loading vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous fleet," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 236(2), pages 383-404, January.
    4. Boudia, M. & Prins, C., 2009. "A memetic algorithm with dynamic population management for an integrated production-distribution problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 195(3), pages 703-715, June.
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    6. Dominguez, Oscar & Guimarans, Daniel & Juan, Angel A. & de la Nuez, Ignacio, 2016. "A Biased-Randomised Large Neighbourhood Search for the two-dimensional Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 255(2), pages 442-462.
    7. Chris Groër & Bruce Golden & Edward Wasil, 2009. "The Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 11(4), pages 630-643, February.
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    10. H. Neil Geismar & Gilbert Laporte & Lei Lei & Chelliah Sriskandarajah, 2008. "The Integrated Production and Transportation Scheduling Problem for a Product with a Short Lifespan," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 20(1), pages 21-33, February.
    11. Guido Perboli & Ferdinando Pezzella & Roberto Tadei, 2008. "EVE-OPT: a hybrid algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing problem," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 68(2), pages 361-382, October.
    12. Derigs, U. & Kaiser, R., 2007. "Applying the attribute based hill climber heuristic to the vehicle routing problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 177(2), pages 719-732, March.
    13. Lai, David S.W. & Caliskan Demirag, Ozgun & Leung, Janny M.Y., 2016. "A tabu search heuristic for the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem on a multigraph," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 32-52.
    14. Jean-Charles Créput & Amir Hajjam & Abderrafiaa Koukam & Olivier Kuhn, 2012. "Self-organizing maps in population based metaheuristic to the dynamic vehicle routing problem," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 24(4), pages 437-458, November.
    15. F Alonso & M J Alvarez & J E Beasley, 2008. "A tabu search algorithm for the periodic vehicle routing problem with multiple vehicle trips and accessibility restrictions," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 59(7), pages 963-976, July.
    16. Gilbert Laporte, 2009. "Fifty Years of Vehicle Routing," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 43(4), pages 408-416, November.
    17. Gilbert Laporte, 2007. "What you should know about the vehicle routing problem," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 54(8), pages 811-819, December.
    18. Ho, Sin C. & Leung, Janny M.Y., 2010. "Solving a manpower scheduling problem for airline catering using metaheuristics," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 202(3), pages 903-921, May.
    19. Stefan Vonolfen & Michael Affenzeller & Andreas Beham & Efrem Lengauer & Stefan Wagner, 2013. "Simulation-based evolution of resupply and routing policies in rich vendor-managed inventory scenarios," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 21(2), pages 379-400, March.
    20. Fuellerer, Guenther & Doerner, Karl F. & Hartl, Richard F. & Iori, Manuel, 2010. "Metaheuristics for vehicle routing problems with three-dimensional loading constraints," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 201(3), pages 751-759, March.
    21. Vidal, Thibaut & Crainic, Teodor Gabriel & Gendreau, Michel & Prins, Christian, 2013. "Heuristics for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems: A survey and synthesis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 231(1), pages 1-21.
    22. Chris Groër & Bruce Golden & Edward Wasil, 2011. "A Parallel Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 23(2), pages 315-330, May.
    23. Liu, Siyuan & Qu, Qiang, 2016. "Dynamic collective routing using crowdsourcing data," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 93(PA), pages 450-469.

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