A Study on Vehicle Routing Problem by Simulated Annealing

碩士 === 元智大學 === 工業工程研究所 === 86 === The transportation rate and cost of the goods for distribution center(DC) is far more than that of a manufacturing factory. The planning of the vehicle routing of the DCs is tradionally treated as a vehicle routing problem(VRP). VRP...

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Main Authors: Kun-Pin chen, 陳坤賓
Other Authors: Michael H. Hu
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05786226658324585559
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Summary:碩士 === 元智大學 === 工業工程研究所 === 86 === The transportation rate and cost of the goods for distribution center(DC) is far more than that of a manufacturing factory. The planning of the vehicle routing of the DCs is tradionally treated as a vehicle routing problem(VRP). VRP is defined as a set of vehicles of limited capacity at a DC serve all customers exactly one and then return to the DC with minimized total routing cost. This study considered that all vehicles have a full time window and nearest and saving methods were employed to get the initial solutions. Then the procedure utilized the simulated annealing(SA) method to search for better solutions by jumping off the trap to improve the initial solution. Finally, an experimental design for the design parameters was conducted for statistics analysis. The results show that the factors of initial temperature, stopping rule and cooling rate are significant for the solution quality.