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The Vehicle Routing Problem with Transhipment Facilities

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This paper proposes an exact method for solving an optimization problem arising in several distribution networks where customers can be served directly, using vehicle routes from a central depot, or through transhipment facilities. The problem consists of optimizing the following inter-dependent decisions: selecting transhipment facilities, allocating customers to these facilities, and designing vehicle routes emanating from a central depot to minimize the total distribution cost. This problem is called the Vehicle Routing Problem with Transhipment Facilities (vrptf). The paper describes two integer-programming formulations for the vrptf, i.e., an edge-flow based formulation and a Set Partitioning (SP) based formulation. The LP-relaxation of the two formulations are further strengthened by the addition of different valid inequalities. We also describe two new route relaxations used by dual ascent heuristics to find near-optimal dual solutions of LP-relaxation of the SP model. The valid inequalities and the route relaxations are used in a branch-and-cut-and-price approach to solve the problem to optimality. The proposed method is tested on a large family of instances, including real-world examples. The computational results obtained indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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hal-01880025 , version 1 (25-10-2018)

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Roberto Baldacci, Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu, Roberto Wolfler Calvo. The Vehicle Routing Problem with Transhipment Facilities. Transportation Science, 2017, 51 (2), pp.592 - 606. ⟨10.1287/trsc.2016.0711⟩. ⟨hal-01880025⟩
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