• Title of article

    Branch-and-cut forthepickupanddeliverytravelingsalesmanproblemwith FIFO loading

  • Author/Authors

    Jean-François Cordeau، نويسنده , , MauroDellʹAmicob، نويسنده , , ManuelIorib، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    970
  • To page
    980
  • Abstract
    This paperintroducesabranch-and-cutalgorithmforavariantofthepickupanddeliverytraveling salesman probleminwhichpickupsanddeliveriesmustobeythefirst-in-first-outpolicy.Weproposea new mathematicalformulationoftheproblemandseveralfamiliesofvalidinequalitieswhichareused within thebranch-and-cutalgorithm.Computationalexperimentsoninstancesfromtheliteratureshow that thisalgorithmoutperformsexistingexactalgorithms,andthatsomeinstanceswithupto25requests (50 nodes)canbesolvedinreasonablecomputingtime.
  • Keywords
    Traveling salesman problem , Pickup and delivery , FIFO loading , Branch-and-cut
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927706