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THE VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM WITH LIMITED VEHICLE CAPACITIES

DOI: 10.7708/ijtte.2013.3(3).03


3 / 3 / 260-268 Pages

Author(s)

Fernando Taracena Sanz - Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro, Av. Tecnológico y Mariano Escobedo, Querétaro, Qro. México -

Elías Neftalí Escobar Gómez - Instituto Tecnológico de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Carretera Panamericana Km. 1080, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México -


Abstract

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) has been an important research topic during the last decades because of his vital role in the productive systems efficiency. Most of the work done in this area has been directed to solve large scale problems which may not apply for small companies which are a very important engine of the world economy. This paper approaches the problem when limited vehicle resources are present and road transportation is used. This study assumes variable customer orders. Variable volume and weight vehicle capacities are considered and the proposed algorithm develops the vehicle delivery routes and the set of customer orders to deliver per vehicle minimizing a cost objective function. In sampling small company’s logistics costs, big cost savings are found when using the proposed method.


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Keywords:
vehicle routing; mathematical programming; tabu search; cut cost;


Acknowledgements:

We want to thank Mr. Enrique Martinez Sanchez for providing us with the data required to test the model.


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