Journal of Shanghai University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2019, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (5): 836-850.doi: 10.12066/j.issn.1007-2861.1993

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A modeling and solution method for cash transportation vehicle routing from the perspective of workload balancing

Mingkun LI(), Gaoshuai BAI, Xinying JIANG   

  1. School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2017-09-11 Online:2019-10-30 Published:2019-10-31
  • Contact: Mingkun LI E-mail:limingkun@126.com

Abstract:

This paper explores the vehicle routing problem for cash transportation by taking into account the workloads and costs. A real case in Shanghai is studied, and various factors, e.g. traffic jams are considered. In order to obtain a satisfactory solution, this paper has tested with the Solomon insertion heuristic algorithm, the neighborhood search heuristic, and the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-Ⅱ (NSGA-Ⅱ). Simulation studies indicate that the neighborhood search heuristic outperforms the Solomon algorithm and NSGA-Ⅱ when the speed of vehicles keeps changing under undesirable traffic conditions. But for instances with good traffic conditions, the NSGA-Ⅱ generates a better result. Other aspects of the problem are also discussed for the purpose of offering suggestions and practicable method for decision making of practitioners and researchers.

Key words: cash transportation, simulated annealing algorithm, genetic algorithm, workload balance, multi-objective optimization

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