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A heuristic column generation method for the heterogeneous fleet VRP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2002

E. D. Taillard*
Affiliation:
IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland, e-mail: eric@idsia.ch
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Abstract

This paper presents a heuristic column generation method for solving vehicle routing problems with a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles. The method may also solve the fleet size and composition vehicle routing problem and new best known solutions are reported for a set of classical problems. Numerical results show that the method is robust and efficient, particularly for medium and large size problem instances.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 1999

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