The vehicle routing problem with coupled time windows

The vehicle routing problem with coupled time windows

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Article ID: iaor20072903
Country: Germany
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 157
End Page Number: 176
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Journal: Central European Journal of Operations Research
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Keywords: programming: integer
Abstract:

In this article we introduce the vehicle routing problem with coupled time windows (VRPCTW), which is an extension of the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) where additional coupling constraints on the time windows are imposed. VRPCTW is applied to model a real-world planning problem concerning the integrated optimization of school starting times and public bus services. A mixed integer programming formulation for VRPCTW within this context is given. It is solved using a new meta-heuristic that combines classical construction aspects with mixed-integer preprocessing techniques, and improving hit-and-run, a randomized search strategy from global optimization. Solutions for several randomly generated and real-world instances are presented.

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