© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.This paper studies a vehicle routing problem with time-dependent and stochastic travel times. In our problem setting, customers have soft time windows. A mathematical model is used in which both efficiency for service as well as reliability …
We investigate the complexity of shortest paths in time-dependent graphs where the costs of edges (that is, edge travel times) vary as a function of time, and as a result the shortest path between two nodes s and d can …
This paper introduces a fast solution procedure to solve 100-node instances of the time-dependent orienteering problem (TD-OP) within a few seconds of computation time. Orienteering problems occur in logistic situations were an optimal combination of locations needs to be selected …
Given a graph whose arc traversal times vary over time, the time-dependent travelling salesman problem (TDTSP) consists in finding a Hamiltonian tour of least total duration covering the vertices of the graph. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, …
The minimum cost path problem in a time-varying road network is a complicated problem. The paper proposes two heuristic methods to solve the minimum cost path problem between a pair of nodes with a time-varying road network and a congestion …
Today manufacturers have become much more concerned with the coordination of both manufacturing (of new products) and recycling (of reusable resources) operations. This requires simultaneous scheduling of both forward and reverse flows of goods over a supply chain network. This …
Abstract- This article considers the problem of finding a route and schedule for a vehicle starting from a depot, visiting a set of customers, and returning to the depot, in a time-dependent network where the objective is to minimize the …
In this paper we exploit some properties of the travel time model proposed by Ichoua, Gendreau, and Potvin [Ichoua S, Gendreau M, Potvin J-Y (2003) Vehicle dispatching with time-dependent travel times. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 144:379–396], on which most of …
In this paper we address optimal routing problems in networks where travel times are both stochastic and time-dependent. In these networks, the best route choice is not necessarily a path, but rather a time-adaptive strategy that assigns successors to nodes …
The point-to-point quickest path problem is a classical network optimization problem with numerous applications, including that of computing driving directions. In this paper, we define a lower bound on the time-to-target which is both accurate and fast to compute. We …