英文摘要 |
The problem of determining the location of distribution centers that takesvehicle routes into account is called the Location Routing Problem. This paperpresents an extended capacitated location routing problem that considers twodifferent routes, including pick-up and delivery originated from the depots. Thesetwo different sets of routes will affect the decision of distribution center deployment.A new solving process that contains three stages is proposed to address this issue.The first stage is to determine the number of open depots needed, and thus onestrategy is proposed in this research to help in the selection of open depots. Thesecond stage is to assign customers to one of the open depots for logistics service, and a method is provided in this work to assist with this process. The last stage isto form the vehicle routes, and a modified TABU search is designed to help invehicle dispatching. This solving process is applied to the conventional locationrouting benchmarks to verify its solution quality. A new set of benchmarks withregard to the problem is then established and solved by this proposed process.According to the results of the experiments, the proposed solving process canefficiently and effectively solve the location routing problem with pick-up anddelivery routes. |