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Multiple-Depot Vehicle Scheduling Problem Heuristics

Optimization and Control 2020-05-01 v1

Abstract

The Multiple-Depot Vehicle Scheduling Problem (MDVSP) is very important in the planning process of transport systems. It consists in assigning a set of trips to a set of vehicles in order to minimize a certain total cost. We introduce three fast and reliable heuristics for MDVSP based on a classical integer linear programming formulation and on graph theoretic methods of fixing the infeasible subtours gathered from an integer solution. Extensive experimentations using a large set of benchmark instances show that our heuristics are faster and give good or even better results compared with other existing heuristics.

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@article{arxiv.2004.14951,
  title  = {Multiple-Depot Vehicle Scheduling Problem Heuristics},
  author = {Emanuel Florentin Olariu and Cristian Frasinaru},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14951},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages

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