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A branch-and-cut algorithm for the profitable windy rural postman problem

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  • Ávila, Thais
  • Corberán, Ángel
  • Plana, Isaac
  • Sanchis, José M.

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In this paper we study the profitable windy rural postman problem. This is an arc routing problem with profits defined on a windy graph in which there is a profit associated with some of the edges of the graph, consisting of finding a route maximizing the difference between the total profit collected and the total cost. This problem generalizes the rural postman problem and other well-known arc routing problems and has real-life applications, mainly in snow removal operations. We propose here a formulation for the problem and study its associated polyhedron. Several families of facet-inducing inequalities are described and used in the design of a branch-and-cut procedure. The algorithm has been tested on a large set of benchmark instances and compared with other existing algorithms. The results obtained show that the branch-and-cut algorithm is able to solve large-sized instances optimally in reasonable computing times.

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  • Ávila, Thais & Corberán, Ángel & Plana, Isaac & Sanchis, José M., 2016. "A branch-and-cut algorithm for the profitable windy rural postman problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 249(3), pages 1092-1101.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:249:y:2016:i:3:p:1092-1101
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.10.016
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