Research Communication | Open Access
Volume 2019 | Communication ID 139
Volume 2019 | Communication ID 139
| The Multi-Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem |
Nouhaila Adil, Halima Lakhbab
Received |
Accepted |
Published |
Jan 29, 2019 |
Feb 26, 2019 |
Mar 01, 2019 |
Abstract: The multi-compartment vehicle routing problem MCVRP, is one of the fundamental problems in operational research and physical distribution, that was widely studied in the last decades. Nevertheless, the multi-depot variant of the problem has been neglected or barely considered in the researches; despite its importance in the real case problems especially the ones encountered in fuel distribution industry. To the best of our knowledge, it was first studied in 2012 by Cornillier and al. [1], and a heuristic was developed to solve the problem. Then in 2017, Alinaghian and Shokouhi [2] proposed a ...