Field services design and management of natural gas distribution networks: a class of vehicle routing problem with time windows approach |
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| Authors: | Massimo Paolucci Davide Anghinolfi |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Informatics, Bio engineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genova, Genova, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Service operations management of metropolitan gas networks at operational level implies the optimisation of decisions related to logistic activities, taking into account multi-objectives and operational constraints. This paper proposes a metaheuristic approach for the operational planning of the daily logistic activities based on vehicle routing with time window model. Experimental results for a real planning case in a gas distribution network demonstrate the approach effectiveness. |
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| Keywords: | vehicle routing problem operations planning networks optimisation distribution systems time windows metropolitan gas distribution networks |
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