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A Solution Procedure for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Three-Dimensional Loading Constraints in Online Supermarket Delivery

In: The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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  • Min-fang Huang

    (North China Electric Power University)

  • Yuan-kai Zhang

    (North China Electric Power University)

Abstract

Due to the very large number of online supermarket’s orders, it is necessary to consider loading constraints of the packages while arranging vehicle schemes. It is expected to greatly improve the loading rate and reduce distribution costs. Aiming at the delivery problem from supermarket’s distribution center to the delivery stations, this paper studies the three dimensional loading constrained vehicle routing problem. First of all, according to the actual conditions of packing problem, it designs heuristic rules for packing activity and calculation formulation for residual loading capacity, based on which a three dimensional loading is proposed. Combined with the loading algorithm, it then presents the initial vehicle scheme generation measure and designs optimization method of schemes. Finally, it constructs an experimental example to validate the proposed solution procedure. The result shows the validity of the procedure for vehicle routing problem with loading constraints of large number of packages.

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  • Min-fang Huang & Yuan-kai Zhang, 2013. "A Solution Procedure for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Three-Dimensional Loading Constraints in Online Supermarket Delivery," Springer Books, in: Ershi Qi & Jiang Shen & Runliang Dou (ed.), The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 1159-1166, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-38427-1_122
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38427-1_122
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