Article ID: | iaor200944740 |
Country: | Canada |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 41 |
End Page Number: | 47 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2007 |
Journal: | INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research |
Authors: | Gingras Catherine |
Keywords: | vehicle routing & scheduling, heuristics |
In this article we study a problem of vehicle routing that arises in the forestry industry. We describe an improvemnet heuristic, called MaxTour, which allows several journeys to be combined into a single tour. The use of this heuristic has been successful in initial tests, and promises further significant savings.