| Article ID: | iaor20062102 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 55 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Start Page Number: | 1298 |
| End Page Number: | 1310 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2004 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Chiang W.-C., Russell R.A. |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
This paper develops a metaheuristic for the vehicle-routing and scheduling problem with soft time window constraints. A tabu search solution method is developed, which utilizes a mixed neighbourhood structure and an advanced recovery procedure to generate high-quality solutions. Computational results on test problems from the literature are reported. The metaheuristic achieves solutions that compare favourably with previously reported results.