Treffer: The Shared Customer Collaboration Vehicle Routing Problem

Title:
The Shared Customer Collaboration Vehicle Routing Problem
Contributors:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GNOM - Grup d'Optimització Numèrica i Modelització
Source:
UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Publisher Information:
Elsevier BV, 2018.
Publication Year:
2018
Document Type:
Fachzeitschrift Article
File Description:
application/pdf
Language:
English
ISSN:
0377-2217
DOI:
10.1016/j.ejor.2017.08.051
Rights:
Elsevier TDM
CC BY NC ND
Accession Number:
edsair.doi.dedup.....41562ff652fca87b50bd3e35c0ff0ce0
Database:
OpenAIRE

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This paper introduces a new vehicle routing problem that arises in an urban area where several carriers operate and some of their customers have demand of service for more than one carrier. The problem, called Shared Customer Collaboration Vehicle Routing Problem, aims at reducing the overall operational cost in a collaboration framework among the carriers for the service of the shared customers. Alternative mathematical programming formulations are proposed for the problem that are solved with a branch-and-cut algorithm. Computational experiments on different sets of benchmark instances are run to assess the effectiveness of the formulations. Moreover, in order to estimate the savings coming from the collaboration, the optimal solutions are compared with the solutions obtained when carriers work independently from each other.