A Heuristic Solution Method to a Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem
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In order to solve real-world vehicle routing problems, the standard Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) model usually needs to be extended. Here we consider the case when customers can call in orders during the daily operations, i.e. both customer locations and demand may be unknown in advance. Our heuristic approach attempts to minimize the expected number of vehicles and their travel distance in the final execution, under the condition that the unknown parameters have a known (approximated) distribution.
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