Xie Gui-qin, Yang Yu-hua, Tu Jing-xian. The Linehaul-Feeder Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Virtual Depots[J]. 2013, 30(1): 61-67.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-7162.2013.01.011.
The Linehaul-Feeder Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Virtual Depots
On the basis that in original literature minimum vehicle scheduling cost was set as the only objective
it sets the maximum customer satisfaction index as another objective
and proposes a mathematical model for the linehaul-feeder multi-objective vehicle routing problem with time windows and virtual depots . The new model economizes the replenishment number of round trips
distance and time. K-means clustering method was applied to select some customers as the replenishment points
the problem was solved through the multi-objective evolutionary algorithm
based on sub-regions and the max-min strategy
and some instances were tested in the VRP web question bank. The experimental results show that the proposed model is more effective than the traditional non linehaul-feeder VRPTW.