Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
11-2000
Abstract/Description
Recent technological advances in communication systems now allow the exploitation of rea-time information for dynamic vehicle routing and scheduling. It is possible, in particular, to consider diverting a vehicle away from its current destination in response to a new customer request. In this paper, a strategy for assigning customer requests, which includes diversion, is proposed, and various issues related to it are presented. An empirical evaluation of the proposed approach is performed within a previously reported tabu search heuristic. Simulations compare the tabu search heuristic, with and without the new strategy, on a dynamic problem motivated from a courier service application. The results demonstrate the potential savings that can be obtained through the application of the proposed approach.
Publication Title
Transportation Science
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Scholarly Commons Citation
Ichoua, S., Gendreau, M., & Potvin, J. Y. (2000). Diversion Issues in Real-Time Vehicle Dispatching. Transportation Science, 34(4). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/ww-leadership/2
