A vehicle routing problem with two types of ships in container terminals

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

Abstract

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of well-established and important topic in supply chain and logistic networks. The location-routing decision-making has a significant role to optimize the traveling cost per distance, total traveling time and the number of vehicles in the supply chain networks. One of recent advances in these systems refers to container terminals in the global trade centers. The new contributions of this model are to consider the routes of two types of ships (Tramp and Liner) with different properties and the time windows in order to minimize costs. The proposed is solved by an exact method (B&B) as well as because of inherent complexity of problem proposed in the real-world cases, the Genetic (GA) algorithm has been used to find an optimal/global solution in a reasonable time. Finally, an in-depth analysis and discussion is provided to conclude the main findings and practical implications of the results.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 29, Issue 1
Transactions on Industrial Engineering (E)
January and February 2022
Pages 447-460

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  • Receive Date: 30 December 2019
  • Revise Date: 14 February 2020
  • Accept Date: 06 June 2020

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