A robust scenario approach for the vehicle routing problem with uncertain travel times

Transportation Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 373-390

  Han, Jinil ^a,b   Lee, Chungmok ^c,d   Park, Sungsoo ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c IBM RESEARCH   (Ireland)

^d Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Branch and cut; Robust optimization; Stochastic programming; Stochastic travel times; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRAVEL TIME; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

BRANCH AND CUT; BRANCH-AND-CUT ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; RANGE ESTIMATES; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; SCENARIO APPROACH; STOCHASTIC TRAVEL TIMES; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84907719406     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2013.0476     Document Type: Article

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