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 res...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.展开更多
研究了配送车辆载重量和工作时间有限,考虑货物装卸时间的多车次同时送货和取货的车辆路径问题(multi-trip vehicle routing problem with simultaneous deliveries and pickups,MTVRPSDP),建立了以配送车辆启动成本和车辆行驶成本之和...研究了配送车辆载重量和工作时间有限,考虑货物装卸时间的多车次同时送货和取货的车辆路径问题(multi-trip vehicle routing problem with simultaneous deliveries and pickups,MTVRPSDP),建立了以配送车辆启动成本和车辆行驶成本之和最小为目标的线性整数规划模型.将量子计算和基本蚁群算法相结合提出了求解MTVRPSDP的量子蚁群算法,该算法应用量子比特启发式因子改进了人工蚂蚁的转移概率,从而提高了算法的全局搜索能力和稳定性,有效改进了算法陷入局部最优的缺陷.算例分析表明:MTVRPSDP的线性整数规划模型在实际应用中是可行和有效的,而且相比于基本蚁群算法和文献中所给其他算法的计算结果,利用量子蚁群算法和MTVRPSDP的线性整数规划模型能够得到较好的满意解,安排的车辆配送路线更加经济合理.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51138003)the National Social Science Foundation of Chongqing of China(No.2013YBJJ035)
文摘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.
文摘研究了配送车辆载重量和工作时间有限,考虑货物装卸时间的多车次同时送货和取货的车辆路径问题(multi-trip vehicle routing problem with simultaneous deliveries and pickups,MTVRPSDP),建立了以配送车辆启动成本和车辆行驶成本之和最小为目标的线性整数规划模型.将量子计算和基本蚁群算法相结合提出了求解MTVRPSDP的量子蚁群算法,该算法应用量子比特启发式因子改进了人工蚂蚁的转移概率,从而提高了算法的全局搜索能力和稳定性,有效改进了算法陷入局部最优的缺陷.算例分析表明:MTVRPSDP的线性整数规划模型在实际应用中是可行和有效的,而且相比于基本蚁群算法和文献中所给其他算法的计算结果,利用量子蚁群算法和MTVRPSDP的线性整数规划模型能够得到较好的满意解,安排的车辆配送路线更加经济合理.
