Heuristics for the Real-time Pickup-and-Delivery Travelling Salesman Problem

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-133

  Chandra Sunil Kumar, Ch S N ^a   Narendran, T T ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Dynamic Vehicle Routing; Heuristics; Intelligent transportation systems; Partial truck load; Pickup and Delivery; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149100272     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2008.015931     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bent, R.W. and Hentenryck, P.V (2004) 'Scenario-based planning for partially dynamic vehicle routing with stochastic customers', Operations Research, Vol. 52, pp.977-987.
2. Beraldi, P., Ghiani, G., Laporte, G. and Musmanno, R. (2005) 'Efficient neighborhood search for the probabilistic pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem', Networks, Vol. 45, pp. 195-198.
3. Bertsimas, D.J. and Van Ryzin, G. (1991) 'A stochastic and dynamic vehicle routing problem in the Euclidean plane', Operations Research Vol. 39, pp.601-615.
4. Bertsimas, D.J. and Van Ryzin, G. (1993) 'Stochastic and dynamic vehicle routing in the Euclidean plane with multiple capacitated vehicles', Operations Research, Vol. 4 1, pp.60-76.
5. Chen, Z.L. and Xu, H. (2006) 'Dynamic column generation for dynamic vehicle routing with time windows', Transportation Science, Vol. 40, pp.74-88.
6. Cordeau, J.F. and Laporte, G. (2003) 'The Dial-a-Ride problem (DARP): variants, modeling issues and algorithms', 4OR, Vol. 1, pp.89-101.
7. Coslovich, L., Pesenti, R. and Ulkovich, W. (2006) 'A two phase insertion technique of unexpected customers for a dynamic dial-a-ride problem', European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 175, pp.1605-1615.
8. Ganesh, K. and Narendran, T.T. (2005) 'CLOSE: A heuristic to solve a precedence- constrained travelling salesman problem with delivery and pickup', Int. J. Services and Operations Management, Vol. 1, pp.320-343.
9. Gendreau, M. and Potvin, J.Y. (1998) 'Dynamic vehicle routing and dispatching', In T.G. Crainic and G. Laporte (Eds), Fleet Management and Logistics (pp.115-126). Boston: Kluwer.
10. Gendreau, M., Guertin, F. and Potvin, J. Y. (1999) 'Parallel tabu search for real-time vehicle routing and dispatching', Transportation Science, Vol. 33, pp.381-390.
11. Ghiani, G., Guerriero, F., Laporte, G. and Musmanno, M. (2003) 'Real-time vehicle routing: Solution concepts, algorithms and parallel computing strategies', European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 151, pp. 1-11.
12. Healy, P. and Moll, R. (1995) 'A new extension of local search applied to the Dial-a-Ride problem', European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 83, pp.83-104.
13. Ichoua, S., Gendreau, M. and Potvin, J.Y. (2000) 'Diversion issues in real-time vehicle dispatching', Transportation Science, Vol. 34, pp.426-438.
14. Koh, S.C.L. and Tan, Z. (2005) 'Using e-commerce to gain a competitive advantage in 3PL enterprises in China', Int. J. Logistics Systems and Management, Vol. 1, pp.187-210.
15. Larsen, A., Madsen, O. and Solomon, M. (2002) 'Partially dynamic vehicle routing-models and algorithms', Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol. 53, pp.637-646.
16. Larsen, A., Madsen, O.B.G. and Solomon, M.M. (2004) 'The a priori traveling salesman problem with time windows', Transportation Science Vol. 38, pp.459-472.
17. Lund, K., Madsen, O. and Rygaard, J. (1996) 'Vehicle routing problems with varying degrees of dynamism', Technical report, No. IMM-REP-1996-1, Institute of Mathematical Modeling (IMM), Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
18. Mitrovic-Minic, S., Krishnamurti, R. and Laporte, G. (2004) 'Double-horizon based heuristics for the dynamic pickup and delivery problem with time windows', Transportation Research-B, Vol. 38, pp.669-685.
19. Mitrovic-Minic, S. and Laporte, G. (2004) 'Waiting strategies for the dynamic pickup and delivery problem with time windows', Transportation Research Part B, Vol. 38, pp.635-655.
20. Pankratz, G. (2005) 'Dynamic vehicle routing by means of a genetic algorithm', International journal of physical distribution and logistics management, Vol. 35, pp.362-383.
21. Psaraftis, H.N. (1980) 'A dynamic programming solution to the single vehicle Many-to-Many immediate request Dial-a-Ride problem', Transportation Science, Vol. 14, pp.130-154.
22. Psaraftis, H.N. (1988) 'Dynamic vehicle routing'. in: B. Golden and A. Assad (Eds), Vehicle Routing: Methods and Studies (pp.223-248). North Holland: Amsterdam.
23. Psaraftis, H.N. (1995) 'Dynamic vehicle routing: Status and prospects', Annals of operations research, Vol. 61, pp.143-164.
24. Regan, A.C., Mahmassani, H.S. and Jaillet, P. (1996) 'Dynamic decision making for commercial fleet operations using real-time information', Transportation research record, Vol. 1537, pp.91-97.
25. Regan, A.C., Mahmassani, H.S. and Jaillet, P. (1998) 'Evaluation of dynamic fleet management systems: Simulation framework', Transportation research record, Vol. 1645, pp.176-184.
26. Renaud, J., Boctor, F.F. and Ouenniche, J. (2000) 'A heuristic for the pickup and delivery traveling salesman problem', Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 27, pp.905-916.
27. Savelsbergh, M.W. and Sol, M. (1995) 'The general pickup and delivery problem', Transportation Science, Vol. 29, pp.17-29.
28. Swihart, M.R. and Papastovrov, J.D. (1999) 'A stochastic and dynamic model for the single vehicle pickup and delivery problem', European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 114, pp.447-464.
29. Tan, A. and Kritchanchai, D. (2006) 'An information technology implementation framework for the logistics industry in Singapore', Int. J. Logistics Systems and Management, Vol. 2, pp.371-386.
30. Tjokroamidjojo, T., Kutanoglu, E. and Taylor, G.D. (2006) 'Quantifying the value of advance load information in truckload trucking', Transportation Research-E, Vol. 42, pp.340-357.
31. Yang, J., Jaillet, P. and Mahmassani, H. (2004) 'Real-time multi-vehicle truckload pickup and delivery problems', Transportation Science, Vol. 38, pp.135-148.