Article ID: | iaor20115222 |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 885 |
End Page Number: | 895 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
Journal: | Transportation Research Part C |
Authors: | Gonzlez-Velarde Jos Luis, Salazar-Aguilar M Anglica, Ros-Mercado Roger Z |
Keywords: | agriculture & food, distribution, vehicle routing & scheduling, programming: multiple criteria |
In this paper, we address a territory design problem arising from a bottled beverage distribution company. We propose a bi‐objective programming model where dispersion and balancing with respect to the number of customers are used as performance criteria. Constraints such as connectivity and balancing with respect to sales volume are considered in the model. Most of the work in territory design has been developed for single‐objective models. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first multi‐objective approach for this commercial territory design problem, and in particular, for territory design with connectivity constraints. We propose an improved