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Hauptverfasser: Horváth, Markó, Kis, Tamás, Györgyi, Péter
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Horváth, Markó
Kis, Tamás
Györgyi, Péter
author_facet Horváth, Markó
Kis, Tamás
Györgyi, Péter
contents In this paper, we study a dynamic pickup and delivery problem with docking constraints. There is a homogeneous fleet of vehicles to serve pickup-and-delivery requests at given locations. The vehicles can be loaded up to their capacity, while unloading has to follow the last-in-first-out (LIFO) rule. The locations have a limited number of docking ports for loading and unloading, which may force the vehicles to wait. The problem is dynamic since the transportation requests arrive real-time, over the day. Accordingly, the routes of the vehicles are to be determined dynamically. The goal is to satisfy all the requests such that a combination of tardiness penalties and traveling costs is minimized. We propose a cost function approximation based solution method. In each decision epoch, we solve the respective optimization problem with a perturbed objective function to ensure the solutions remain adaptable to accommodate new requests. We penalize waiting times and idle vehicles. We propose a variable neighborhood search based method for solving the optimization problems, and we apply two existing local search operators, and we also introduce a new one. We evaluate our method using a widely adopted benchmark dataset, and the results demonstrate that our approach significantly surpasses the current state-of-the-art methods.
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spellingShingle A cost function approximation method for dynamic vehicle routing with docking and LIFO constraints
Horváth, Markó
Kis, Tamás
Györgyi, Péter
Optimization and Control
In this paper, we study a dynamic pickup and delivery problem with docking constraints. There is a homogeneous fleet of vehicles to serve pickup-and-delivery requests at given locations. The vehicles can be loaded up to their capacity, while unloading has to follow the last-in-first-out (LIFO) rule. The locations have a limited number of docking ports for loading and unloading, which may force the vehicles to wait. The problem is dynamic since the transportation requests arrive real-time, over the day. Accordingly, the routes of the vehicles are to be determined dynamically. The goal is to satisfy all the requests such that a combination of tardiness penalties and traveling costs is minimized. We propose a cost function approximation based solution method. In each decision epoch, we solve the respective optimization problem with a perturbed objective function to ensure the solutions remain adaptable to accommodate new requests. We penalize waiting times and idle vehicles. We propose a variable neighborhood search based method for solving the optimization problems, and we apply two existing local search operators, and we also introduce a new one. We evaluate our method using a widely adopted benchmark dataset, and the results demonstrate that our approach significantly surpasses the current state-of-the-art methods.
title A cost function approximation method for dynamic vehicle routing with docking and LIFO constraints
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01915