Exploiting knowledge about future demands for real-time vehicle dispatching

Exploiting knowledge about future demands for real-time vehicle dispatching

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Article ID: iaor20072339
Country: United States
Volume: 40
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 211
End Page Number: 225
Publication Date: May 2006
Journal: Transportation Science
Authors: , ,
Keywords: transportation: road, heuristics
Abstract:

An important, but seldom investigated, issue in the field of dynamic vehicle routing and dispatching is how to exploit information about future events to improve decision making. In this paper, we address this issue in a real-time setting with a strategy based on probabilistic knowledge about future request arrivals to better manage the fleet of vehicles. More precisely, the new strategy introduces dummy customers (representing forecasted requests) in vehicle routes to provide a good coverage of the territory. This strategy is assessed through computational experiments performed in a simulated environment.

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