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A Variable Neighborhood Search for the Multi Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

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The aim of this paper is to propose an algorithm based on the philosophy of the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) to solve Multi Depot Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows. The paper has two main contributions. First, from a technical point of view, it presents the first application of a VNS for this problem and several design issues of VNS algorithms are discussed. Second, from a problem oriented point of view the computational results show that the approach is competitive with an existing Tabu Search algorithm with respect to both solution quality and computation times.

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  1. Department of Production and Operations Management, Institute of Management Science, University of Vienna, A-1210, Vienna, Austria

    Michael Polacek, Richard F. Hartl & Karl Doerner

  2. Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Marc Reimann

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Polacek, M., Hartl, R., Doerner, K. et al. A Variable Neighborhood Search for the Multi Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. J Heuristics 10, 613–627 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10732-005-5432-5

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