Design and development of a hybrid ant colony-variable neighbourhood search algorithm for a multi-depot green vehicle routing problem

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 57, Issue , 2017, Pages 422-457

  Jabir, E ^a   Panicker, Vinay V ^a   Sridharan, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT   (India)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Environmental impact; Integer linear programming model; Variable neighbourhood search; Vehicle routing problem

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COST REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SUPPLY CHAINS; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; VARIABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD SEARCH; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEURISTICS; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; ROUTING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 85033592974     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2017.09.003     Document Type: Article

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