Articles

An Optimization-Based Heuristic for the Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem

Année
2008
Auteurs
ARCHETTI Claudia, SPERANZA M. Grazia, SAVELSBERGH Martin W. P.
Abstract
The split delivery vehicle routing problem is concerned with serving the demand of a set of customers with a fleet of capacitated vehicles at minimum cost. Contrary to what is assumed in the classical vehicle routing problem, a customer can be served by more than one vehicle, if convenient. We present a solution approach that integrates heuristic search with optimization by using an integer program to explore promising parts of the search space identified by a tabu search heuristic. Computational results show that the method improves the solution of the tabu search in all but one instance of a large test set.
ARCHETTI, C., SPERANZA, M.G. et SAVELSBERGH, M.W.P. (2008). An Optimization-Based Heuristic for the Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem. Transportation Science, 42(1), pp. 22-31.