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| Author: | Baptista, S. Carvalho Oliveira, R. Zuquete, E. |
| Title: | A period vehicle routing case study |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research
2002 : JUN, VOL. 139:2, p. 220-229 |
| Index terms: | CASE STUDIES ROUTING PROBLEM HEURISTIC METHODS ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The period vehicle routing problem is a multilevel problem assembling two classical problems: the assignment problem and the vehicle routing problem. Collection days have to be assigned to each customer and vehicle routes have to be designed for each day of the period (time horizon) so that the total distribution cost is minimised. The interaction between the temporal and spatial aspects turns the problem into one of the most challenging variations of vehicle routing. In this paper, the authors present the study of a real period vehicle routing system: the collection of recycling paper containers in the City Council of Almada, Portugal. |
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