A genetic algorithm based approach to vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and deliveries

The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and deliveries, which considers simultaneous distribution and collection of goods to/from customers, is an extension of the capacitated vehicle routing problem. There are various real cases, where fleet of vehicles originated in a depot serves customers with pick-up and deliveries from/to their locations. Increasing importance of reverse logistics activities make it necessary to determine efficient and effective vehicle routes for simultaneous pick-up and delivery activities. The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and deliveries is also NP-hard as a capacitated vehicle routing problem and this study proposes a genetic algorithm based approach to this problem. Computational example is presented with parameter settings in order to illustrate the proposed approach. Moreover, performance of the proposed approach is evaluated by solving several test problems.     

多目标同时取送货车辆路径问题的改进蚁群算法

为使同时取送货车辆路径问题(vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery, VRPSPD)的运输成本和各路径间最大长度差最小化,建立同时考虑车辆容量和距离约束的VRPSPD双目标模型,通过软件测试验证了模型准确性.针对问题的特点构造一个嵌入禁忌表、且具有贪婪转移准则的多目标蚁群算法,对蚂蚁产生的解执行多目标迭代局部搜索程序,以在多个邻域上优化该解或产生新的Pareto解.采用响应曲面法拟合算法参数对目标值影响的数学关系,确定最优参数组合.用该算法求得文献中12组Solomon算例的Pareto解集,并以绝对偏向最小化总成本的解与文献中仅最小化总成本的几种算法的计算结果进行比较,结果表明算法可求得权衡各目标且使单一目标近似最优的Pareto解.     

The single vehicle routing problem with deliveries and selective pickups

The single vehicle routing problem with deliveries and selective pickups (SVRPDSP) is defined on a graph in which pickup and delivery demands are associated with customer vertices. The difference between this problem and the single vehicle routing problem with pickups and deliveries (SVRPPD) lies in the fact that it is no longer necessary to satisfy all pickup demands. In the SVRPDSP a pickup revenue is associated with each vertex, and the pickup demand at that vertex will be collected only if it is profitable to do so. The net cost of a route is equal to the sum of routing costs, minus the total collected revenue. The aim is to design a vehicle route of minimum net cost, visiting each customer, performing all deliveries, and a subset of the pickups. A mixed integer linear programming formulation is proposed for the SVRPDSP. Classical construction and improvement heuristics, as well as a tabu search heuristic (TS), are developed and tested on a number of instances derived from VRPLIB. Computational results show that the solutions produced by the proposed heuristics are near-optimal. There is also some evidence that the best solutions identified by the heuristics are frequently non-Hamiltonian and may contain one or two customers visited twice.     

A heuristic method for the vehicle routing problem with mixed deliveries and pickups

The vehicle routing problem with deliveries and pickups is a challenging extension to the vehicle routing problem that lately attracted growing attention in the literature. This paper investigates the relationship between two versions of this problem, called “mixed” and “simultaneous”. In particular, we wish to know whether a solution algorithm designed for the simultaneous case can solve the mixed case. To this end, we implement a metaheuristic based on reactive tabu search. The results suggest that this approach can yield good results.     

Testing local search move operators on the vehicle routing problem with split deliveries and time windows

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is an important transportation problem. The literature addresses several extensions of this problem, including variants having delivery time windows associated with customers and variants allowing split deliveries to customers. The problem extension including both of these variations has received less attention in the literature. This research effort sheds further light on this problem. Specifically, this paper analyzes the effects of combinations of local search (LS) move operators commonly used on the VRP and its variants. We find when paired with a MAX-MIN Ant System constructive heuristic, Or-opt or 2-opt⁎ appear to be the ideal LS operators to employ on the VRP with split deliveries and time windows with Or-opt finding higher quality solutions and 2-opt⁎ requiring less run time.     

A tabu search algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and delivery service

The vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-up and delivery (VRP_SPD) is a variant of the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP) where clients require simultaneous pick-up and delivery service. Deliveries are supplied from a single depot at the beginning of the vehicle's service, while pick-up loads are taken to the same depot at the conclusion of the service. One important characteristic of this problem is that a vehicle's load in any given route is a mix of pick-up and delivery loads.     

有时间窗车辆路径问题的捕食搜索算法

有时间窗车辆路径问题是当前物流配送系统研究中的热点问题,该问题具有NP难性质。难以求得最优解或满意解,在建立有时间窗车辆路径问题数学模型的基础上。设计了一种模仿动物捕食策略的捕食搜索算法．该算法利用控制搜索空间的限制大小来实现算法的局域搜索和全局搜索,具有良好的局部集中搜索和跳出局部最优的能力．通过实例计算,并与相关启发式算法比较．取得了满意的结果．     

Vessel routing with pickups and deliveries: An application to the supply of offshore oil platforms

This paper presents a new routing problem, the Vessel Routing Problem with Selective Pickups and Deliveries (VRPSPD), an extension of existing pickup and delivery problems that arises in the planning of logistics operations in the offshore oil and gas industry. The VRPSPD is a single-vessel model that can lead to significant economic improvements to the current planning scheme without having a very large impact on the operations. In addition, we formulate a Multi-Vessel Routing Problem with Pickups and Deliveries (mVRPPD) that leads to even larger economical gains, but also entails more important changes in the current planning and operations. To quantify and justify the benefits of the VRPSPD and mVRPPD, an industry case based on real data was constructed and solved for 300 days. The VRPSPD is solvable with a commercial solver for most real-size instances. However, for the mVRPPD on the largest instances, it was necessary to develop a state-of-the-art adaptive large neighborhood heuristic search to reduce computational time.     

A two-stage heuristic method for vehicle routing problem with split deliveries and pickups

The vehicle routing problem （VRP） is a well-known combinatorial optimization issue in transportation and logistics network systems. There exist several limitations associated with the traditional VRP. Releasing the restricted conditions of traditional VRP has become a research focus in the past few decades. The vehicle routing problem with split deliveries and pickups （VRPSPDP） is particularly proposed to release the constraints on the visiting times per customer and vehicle capacity, that is, to allow the deliveries and pickups for each customer to be simultaneously split more than once. Few studies have focused on the VRPSPDP problem. In this paper we propose a two-stage heuristic method integrating the initial heuristic algorithm and hybrid heuristic algorithm to study the VRPSPDP problem. To validate the proposed algorithm, Solomon benchmark datasets and extended Solomon benchmark datasets were modified to compare with three other popular algorithms. A total of 18 datasets were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The computational results indicated that the proposed algorithm is superior to these three algorithms for VRPSPDP in terms of total travel cost and average loading rate.     

Scatter search for the stochastic travel-time vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-ups and deliveries

In parallel with the growth of both domestic and international economies, there have been substantial efforts in making manufacturing and service industries more environmental friendly (i.e., promotion of environmental protection). Today manufacturers have become much more concerned with coordinating the operations of manufacturing (for new products) and recycling (for reuse of resources) together with scheduling the forward/reverse flows of goods over a supply chain network. The stochastic travel-time vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pick-ups and deliveries (STT-VRPSPD) is one of the major operations problems in bi-directional supply chain research. The STT-VRPSPD is a very challenging and difficult combinatorial optimization problem due to many reasons such as a non-monotonic increase or decrease of vehicle capacity and the stochasticity of travel times. In this paper, we develop a new scatter search (SS) approach for the STT-VRPSPD by incorporating a new chance-constrained programming method. A generic genetic algorithm (GA) approach for STT-VRPSPD is also developed and used as a reference for performance comparison. The Dethloff data will be used to evaluate the performance characteristics of both SS and GA approaches. The computational results suggest that the SS solutions are superior to the GA solutions.     

具有同时集送货需求车辆路径问题的混沌量子进化算法研究

针对量子进化算法中旋转角取值的离散性使其解空间的搜索具有跳跃性,提出了基于混沌理论的精英均值计算旋转角算法,并将其应用于具有同时集送货需求车辆路径问题的求解.在理论上分析了解的强可行和弱可行条件的基础上,使用启发式算子对解进行改进.通过仿真实验与其他算法进行了比较,仿真结果表明所提出算法是求解此类问题的有效方法.     

多目标同时取送货选址–路径问题的多起点变邻域搜索算法

为使同时取送货的选址–路径问题(LRPSPD)的总成本和各路径间最大长度差最小化, 建立同时考虑车辆容量和行驶里程约束的LRPSPD双目标模型. 采用多蚁群算法构造多个以信息素为关联的初始解, 作为多目标变邻域搜索算法搜索的多个起点, 构造四类邻域结构进行变邻域搜索, 并根据最新获得的最优邻域解更新蚂蚁信息素,从而使蚁群算法产生的多个初始解间、以及初始解与变邻域搜索产生的解之间均存在正向影响关系. 用该算法求得文献中4组共128个算例的近似Pareto解集, 结果证明了最小化路径间最大长度差目标对于节点及需求分布不集中算例的重要意义. 以绝对偏向最小化总成本的解与文献中仅最小化总成本的几种算法的算例结果进行比较, 结果表明算法可在极短的运行时间里求得权衡各目标的Pareto解, 并使最小总成本目标值具有竞争性.     

An ant colony system (ACS) for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup

In this paper we use an ant colony system (ACS) algorithm to solve the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous delivery and pickup (VRPSDP) which is a combinatorial optimization problem. ACS is an algorithmic approach inspired by the foraging behavior of real ants. Artificial ants are used to construct a solution for the problem by using the pheromone information from previously generated solutions. The proposed ACS algorithm uses a construction rule as well as two multi-route local search schemes. The algorithm can also solve the vehicle routing problem with backhaul and mixed load (VRPBM). An extensive numerical experiment is performed on benchmark problem instances available in literature. It is found that ACS gives good results compared to the existing algorithms.     

基于剩余装载能力的蚁群算法求解同时送取货车辆路径问题

建立了带车辆最大行程约束的同时送取货车辆路径问题的混合整数规划模型; 采用了基于排序的蚂蚁系统和最大最小蚂蚁系统的信息素更新策略; 设计了基于车辆剩余装载能力的启发信息策略, 可在满足车辆负载的限制下, 提高车辆的负载利用率; 并在改进阶段使用了节点交换的局部搜索策略,以提高算法收敛速度. 仿真结果表明本文算法能够在可接受的计算时间内得到满意解.     

超启发式分布估计算法求解带软时间窗的同时取送货车辆路径问题

本文针对带软时间窗的同时取送货车辆路径问题(VRPSPDSTW),以最小化车辆行驶总里程和最大化服务准时率为优化目标,提出一种超启发式分布估计算法(HHEDA)进行求解.全局搜索阶段,首先,提出3种启发式规则生成初始个体,以确保初始种群的质量和分散性;其次,根据问题特点,构造3个概率矩阵分别学习和积累优质解的排序信息、...     

A hybrid discrete particle swarm optimization for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery

Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is an important and well-known combinatorial optimization problem encountered in many transport logistics and distribution systems. The VRP has several variants depending on tasks performed and on some restrictions, such as time windows, multiple vehicles, backhauls, simultaneous delivery and pick-up, etc. In this paper, we consider vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery (VRPSPD). The VRPSPD deals with optimally integrating goods distribution and collection when there are no precedence restrictions on the order in which the operations must be performed. Since the VRPSPD is an NP-hard problem, we present a heuristic solution approach based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) in which a local search is performed by variable neighborhood descent algorithm (VND). Moreover, it implements an annealing-like strategy to preserve the swarm diversity. The effectiveness of the proposed PSO is investigated by an experiment conducted on benchmark problem instances available in the literature. The computational results indicate that the proposed algorithm competes with the heuristic approaches in the literature and improves several best known solutions.     

A particle swarm optimization for the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery

This paper proposes a formulation of the vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery (VRPSPD) and a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for solving it. The formulation is a generalization of three existing VRPSPD formulations. The main PSO algorithm is developed based on GLNPSO, a PSO algorithm with multiple social structures. A random key-based solution representation and decoding method is proposed for implementing PSO for VRPSPD. The solution representation for VRPSPD with n customers and m   vehicles is a (n+2m)$(n+2m)$-dimensional particle. The decoding method starts by transforming the particle to a priority list of customers to enter the route and a priority matrix of vehicles to serve each customer. The vehicle routes are constructed based on the customer priority list and vehicle priority matrix. The proposed algorithm is tested using three benchmark data sets available from the literature. The computational result shows that the proposed method is competitive with other published results for solving VRPSPD. Some new best known solutions of the benchmark problem are also found by the proposed method.     

车辆路径问题的禁忌搜索算法研究

简要回顾了车辆路径问题的禁忌搜索算法的发展现状,提出了一种改进的禁忌搜索算法。该算法将路径问题按不同的车辆-顾客分配结构分解成若干子问题,然后用禁忌搜索算法求解每个子问题,最后从所有子问题的最优解中选出全局最优解。理论分析和实验结果表明该算法比以往的算法有以下优点：拓展了搜索空间,提高了最优解的效果;是一种将问题进行空间分解的并行算法,可采用多台计算机同时运算以减少整体运行时间。     

需求可拆分车辆路径问题的禁忌搜索算法

为解决实际配送运输中的车辆路径问题（Vehicle Routing Problem,VRP）,通过改进传统的数学模型,解除每个客户需求只能由l辆车配送的约束,建立改进的可拆分车辆路径问题（Split Delivery VRP,SDVRP）数学模型,并利用禁忌搜索算法（Taboo Search Algorithm,TSA）进行求解．在TSA的设计中,根据SDVRP模型的特点对初始解、邻域搜索和解的评价等进行特殊处理．算例表明,该模型不仅可以解决VRP模型中不允许配送点需求量超出装载量的限制,而且通过相应配送点需求量的拆分和重新组合,可节省车辆数目、缩短路线长度、提高车辆装载率．     

A variable neighborhood search heuristic algorithm for the double vehicle routing problem with multiple stacks

This paper addresses the double vehicle routing problem with multiple stacks (DVRPMS) in which a fleet of vehicles must collect items in a pickup region and then travel to a delivery region where all items are delivered. The load compartment of all vehicles is divided into rows (horizontal stacks) of fixed profundity (horizontal heights), and on each row, the unloading process must respect the last‐in‐first‐out policy. The objective of the DVRPMS is to find optimal routes visiting all pickup and delivery points while ensuring the feasibility of the vehicle loading plans. We propose a new integer linear programming formulation, which was useful to find inconsistencies in the results of exact algorithms proposed in the literature, and a variable neighborhood search based algorithm that was able to find solutions with same or higher quality in shorter computational time for most instances when compared to the methods already present in the literature.