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A New Competitive Approach on Multi-Objective Periodic Vehicle Routing Problem
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M. Alinaghian   , M. Ghazanfari , A. Salamatbakhsh , N. Norouzi |
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Abstract: (9323 Views) |
| This paper presents a novel multi-objective mathematical model of a periodic vehicle
routing problem (PVRP) in a competitive situation for obtaining more sales. In such a situation, the
reaching time to customers affects the sale amount therefore, distributors intend to service customers
earlier than other rivals for obtaining the maximum sale. Moreover, a partial driver’s benefit is related
to the amount of their sale thus, the balance of goods based on the vehicles capacity is important. Due
to its complexity, it is so difficult to optimally solve this problem in a reasonable computational time.
Hence, two algorithms are proposed based on multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO)
and NSGAII algorithm. A comparison of our results with three performance metrics confirms that the
proposed MOPSO is an efficient algorithm for solving the competitive PVRP with a reasonable
computational time.
Keywords: Periodic Vehicle Routing Problem, Competitive Time Windows, Multi Objective
Optimization, MOPSO. |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
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Received: 2011/12/6 | Published: 2011/12/15
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