Scenario-based planning for partially dynamic vehicle routing with stochastic customers

RW Bent, P Van Hentenryck - Operations Research, 2004 - pubsonline.informs.org
Operations Research, 2004pubsonline.informs.org
The multiple vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is a hard and extensively
studied combinatorial optimization problem. This paper considers a dynamic VRPTW with
stochastic customers, where the goal is to maximize the number of serviced customers. It
presents a multiple scenario approach (MSA) that continuously generates routing plans for
scenarios including known and future requests. Decisions during execution use a
distinguished plan chosen, at each decision, by a consensus function. The approach was …
The multiple vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is a hard and extensively studied combinatorial optimization problem. This paper considers a dynamic VRPTW with stochastic customers, where the goal is to maximize the number of serviced customers. It presents a multiple scenario approach (MSA) that continuously generates routing plans for scenarios including known and future requests. Decisions during execution use a distinguished plan chosen, at each decision, by a consensus function. The approach was evaluated on vehicle routing problems adapted from the Solomon benchmarks with a degree of dynamism varying between 30% and 80%. They indicate that MSA exhibits dramatic improvements over approaches not exploiting stochastic information, that the use of consensus function improves the quality of the solutions significantly, and that the benefits of MSA increase with the (effective) degree of dynamism.
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