Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5128351 | Operations Research Letters | 2017 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We propose a formulation for the pickup and delivery problem with time windows, based on a novel modeling strategy that allows the assignment of vehicles to routes explicitly in two-index flow formulations. It leads to an effective compact formulation that can benefit OR practitioners interested in solving the problem by general-purpose optimization software. Computational experiments indicate that the proposed formulation has interesting features and best overall performance in relation to other compact formulations.
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Authors
Maria Gabriela S. Furtado, Pedro Munari, Reinaldo Morabito,