Multi-depot electric vehicle routing problem with fuzzy time windows and pickup/delivery constraints

Autor: Azra Ghobadi, Reza Tavakkoli Moghadam, Mohammad Fallah
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2538-5100
DOI: 10.22105/JARIE.2021.231764.1165
Popis: The use of an Electric Vehicle (EV), particularly in different operations of goods distribution is a solution for salvaging the crowded cities of the world from air and noise pollutions as well as Green House Gas (GHG) emission. This paper presents a Multi-Depot Electric Vehicle Routing Problem (MD-EVRP) with recharging stations by considering the expected penalty of fuzzy time windows in pickup/delivery. Since the MD-EVRP with Fuzzy Time Windows and Pickup/Delivery (MD-EVRP-FTW-PD) constraints is an NP-hard problem, three meta-heuristics (i.e., Simulated Annealing (SA), Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) and a hybrid of SA and VNS (VNS-SA)) are used to solve such a hard problem. The parameters of these algorithms are measured by the Taguchi experimental design method. The proposed hybrid VNS-SA algorithm is more efficient in comparison with other algorithms.
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