A literature review on the vehicle routing problem with multiple depots

The location routing problem with stochastic transportation cost and vehicle travel speeds is considered in this paper. A hybrid solution procedure based on Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) and Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) is proposed. After using a sequential heuristic algorithm to solve the location subproblem, the subsequent capacitated vehicle routing problem is solved using ACO. Finally, a DES model evaluates those vehicle routes in terms of their impact on the expected total costs. The approach is tested using well-known randomly generated datasets. Since no previous works in the literature studied exactly the same SLRP, the proposed procedure is compared against its deterministic version. Numerical results show the efficiency and efficacy of the hybrid ACO-DES approach.

• Autores: Montoya Torres, Jairo R.; López Franco, Julián; Nieto Isaza, Santiago; Felizzola Jiménez, Heriberto; Herazo Padilla, Nilson Sebastian
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/3254
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/3254; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Location; Routing; Ant colony optimization; Simulation; Ubicación; Enrutamiento; Optimización de colonias de hormigas; Simulación
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/