THE VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH STOCHASTIC DEMANDS IN AN URBAN AREA – A CASE STUDY

Danijel Marković, Goran Petrovć, Žarko Ćojbašić, Aleksandar Stanković

DOI Number
https://doi.org/10.22190/FUME190318021M
First page
107
Last page
120

Abstract


The vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands (VRPSD) is a combinatorial optimization problem. The VRPSD looks for vehicle routes to connect all customers with a depot, so that the total distance is minimized, each customer visited once by one vehicle, every route starts and ends at a depot, and the travelled distance and capacity of each vehicle are less than or equal to the given maximum value. Contrary to the classical VRP, in the VRPSD the demand in a node is known only after a vehicle arrives at the very node. This means that the vehicle routes are designed in uncertain conditions. This paper presents a heuristic and meta-heuristic approach for solving the VRPSD and discusses the real problem of municipal waste collection in the City of Niš.

Keywords

Vehicle Routing Problem, Stochastic Demands, Municipal Waste, Heuristic and Meta-heuristic

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