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A Capacitated Clustering-based Method for Newspaper Delivery Routing

Abstract

We present an efficient solver that produces clustered, balanced, and cost effective routes for distribution in a given geographical area. Through cloud computing, the optimization functionality is used by more than 30 Nordic newspaper distribution companies for solving Large-scale Node Edge Arc Routing Problems (NEARP) with route duration, route balancing, and route compactness constraints. First, we solve a capacitated clustering problem. The corresponding NEARP solution is further optimized through a combination of Iterated Local Search, Variable Neighborhood Search, and Large Neighborhood Search.
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Category

Academic lecture

Client

  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 205298

Language

English

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Mathematics and Cybernetics

Presented at

IFORS 2011

Place

Melbourne, Australia

Date

14.07.2011 - 14.07.2011

Organizer

IFORS

Year

2011

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