TY - GEN
T1 - A task based approach for a real-world commodity routing problem
AU - Chen, Jianjun
AU - Bai, Ruibin
AU - Qu, Rong
AU - Kendall, Graham
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, a real world short-haul commodity routing problem is presented. This problem shares several similarities with vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) and the service network design problem (SNDP), but also has its own specific structures that do not exist in VRPTW or SNDP. A task based formulation is developed for this problem and a variable neighbourhood search metaheuristic approach is proposed, resulting in a visible improvement over the original routing plans according to experimental tests over three real-life instances. Apart from introducing a new real-world commodity routing problem, another main contribution of this paper is a task based formulation that allows commodity flows being considered as nodes in a routing network. Thus algorithms that were designed for VRPTW or SDVRP can also possibly be adapted to solve this commodity flow problem.
AB - In this paper, a real world short-haul commodity routing problem is presented. This problem shares several similarities with vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) and the service network design problem (SNDP), but also has its own specific structures that do not exist in VRPTW or SNDP. A task based formulation is developed for this problem and a variable neighbourhood search metaheuristic approach is proposed, resulting in a visible improvement over the original routing plans according to experimental tests over three real-life instances. Apart from introducing a new real-world commodity routing problem, another main contribution of this paper is a task based formulation that allows commodity flows being considered as nodes in a routing network. Thus algorithms that were designed for VRPTW or SDVRP can also possibly be adapted to solve this commodity flow problem.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84884994556&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CIPLS.2013.6595193
DO - 10.1109/CIPLS.2013.6595193
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84884994556
SN - 9781467359054
T3 - Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, CIPLS 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013
SP - 1
EP - 8
BT - Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, CIPLS 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, CIPLS 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013
Y2 - 16 April 2013 through 19 April 2013
ER -