| 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.