A multi-start evolutionary local search for the two-dimensional loading capacitated vehicle routing problem
A multi-start evolutionary local search for the two-dimensional loading capacitated vehicle routing problem
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10.1016/j.cor.2010.08.017
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2011-03
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C. Duhamel;P. Lacomme;A. Quilliot;H. Toussaint
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C. Duhamel;P. Lacomme;A. Quilliot;H. Toussaint
This paper addresses an extension of the capacitated vehicle routing problem where customer demand is composed of two-dimensional weighted items (2L-CVRP). The objective consists in designing a set of trips minimizing the total transportation cost with a homogenous fleet of vehicles based on a depot node. Items in each vehicle trip must satisfy the two-dimensional orthogonal packing constraints. A GRASP×ELS algorithm is proposed to compute solutions of a simpler problem in which the loading constraints are transformed into resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) constraints. We denote this relaxed problem RCPSP-CVRP. The optimization framework deals with RCPSP-CVRP and lastly RCPSP-CVRP solutions are transformed into 2L-CVRP solutions by solving a dedicated packing problem. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated through computational experiments including both classical CVRP and 2L-CVRP instances. Numerical experiments show that the GRASP×ELS approach outperforms all previously published methods.