Article ID: | iaor20091080 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 265 |
End Page Number: | 270 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Eksioglu Burak, Jin Mingzhou, Liu Kai |
A column generation approach is presented for the split delivery vehicle routing problem with large demand. Columns include route and delivery amount information. Pricing sub-problems are solved by a limited-search-with-bound algorithm. Feasible solutions are obtained iteratively by fixing one route once. Numerical experiments show better solutions than in the literature.