scholarly journals A population based simulated annealing algorithm for capacitated vehicle routing problem

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1217-1235
Author(s):  
İlhan İLHAN
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anak Agung Ngurah Perwira Redi ◽  
Fiki Rohmatul Maula ◽  
Fairuz Kumari ◽  
Natasha Utami Syaveyenda ◽  
Nanda Ruswandi ◽  
...  

This study aims to find a set of vehicles routes with the minimum total transportation time for pharmaceutical distribution at PT. XYZ in West Jakarta. The problem is modeled as the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP). The CVRP is known as an NP-Hard problem. Therefore, a simulated annealing (SA) heuristic is proposed. First, the proposed SA performance is compared with the performance of the algorithm form previous studies to solve CVRP. It is shown that the proposed SA is useful in solving CVRP benchmark instances. Then, the SA algorithm is compared to a commonly used heuristic known as the nearest neighborhood heuristics for the case study dataset. The results show that the simulated Annealing and the nearest neighbor algorithm is performing well based on the percentage differences between each algorithm with the optimal solution are 0.03% and 5.50%, respectively. Thus, the simulated annealing algorithm provides a better result compared to the nearest neighbour algorithm. Furthermore, the proposed simulated annealing algorithm can find the solution as same as the exact method quite consistently. This study has shown that the simulated annealing algorithm provides an excellent solution quality for the problem.


2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Woch ◽  
Piotr Łebkowski

This article presents a new simulated annealing algorithm that provides very high quality solutions to the vehicle routing problem. The aim of described algorithm is to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows. The tests were carried out with use of some well known instances of the problem defined by M. Solomon. The empirical evidence indicates that simulated annealing can be successfully applied to bi-criterion optimization problems.


Author(s):  
Arman Davtyan ◽  
Suren Khachatryan

A new metaheuristic algorithm is proposed for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. CVRP is one of the fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization that deals with transport route minimization. The algorithm combines Simulated Annealing, multi-start and simultaneous computing techniques. A series of computational tests are conducted on several CVRP benchmarks and near-optimal solutions are obtained. The results indicate superior performance compared with Simulated Annealing


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