Tour Scheduling in Attended Home Delivery
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چکیده
In this paper we study a tour-scheduling problem for an attended home delivery with uncertain order requests. The is modelled as two-stage stochastic programming and solved using the multi-cut L-shaped method. Weekly working patterns are generated by means of pricing heuristic. Numerical results on randomly instances show that including weekly rules increases total cost only small amount (up to 2.54%) when compared approach considers daily generation driver schedules.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IFAC-PapersOnLine
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2405-8963', '2405-8971']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.09.396