Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia (Mar 2016)

A matheuristic algorithm for the three dimensional loading capacitated vehicle routing problem (3L-CVRP)

  • Luis Miguel Escobar-Falcón,
  • David Álvarez-Martínez,
  • Mauricio Granada-Echeverri,
  • John Willmer-Escobar,
  • Rubén Augusto Romero-Lázaro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.redin.n78a02
Journal volume & issue
no. 78

Abstract

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This paper presents a hybrid algorithm for solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with practical three-dimensional loading constraint. This problem is known as 3L-CVRP (Three-dimensional Loading Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem). The proposed methodology consists of two phases. The first phase uses an optimization procedure based on cuts to obtain solutions for the well-known Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). The second phase validates the results of the first phase of a GRASP algorithm (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure). In particular, the GRASP approach evaluates the packing constraints for each performed route of the CVRP. The proposed hybrid algorithm uses a relaxation of the classical model of two sub-indices for the vehicle routing problem. Specifically different types of cuts are added: subtour elimination, capacity-cut constraints, and packing-cut constrains. The proposed algorithm is compared with the most efficient approaches for the 3L-CVRP on the set of benchmark instances considered in the literature. The computational results indicate that the proposed approach is able to obtain good solutions, improving some of the best-known solutions from the literature.

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