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.
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.