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Aligning Frequencies in Cyclic Delivery Scheduling. In proceedings of the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2007), 28 -31 August 2007, Paris, France, pages 426-430, 2007.
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When facing the task of replenishing customers with stable demand rates on a long-term basis, the natural approach is to set up a cyclic distribution pattern. In this cyclic approach, customers are grouped into tours and tours are assigned to the available vehicle fleet. To ensure that a vehicle can feasibly make all tours that are assigned to it, the cycle times of these tours need to be aligned. This paper presents a new heuristic that aligns delivery frequencies of multiple tours that have to be made by a single vehicle, with the objective of minimizing cost rates. Computational experiments are set up to evaluate the performance of the new heuristic and compare it to an existing heuristic.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{2007-426-430-P, author = {B. Raa and E-H. Aghezzaf},
title = {Aligning Frequencies in Cyclic Delivery Scheduling},
booktitle = {In proceedings of the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2007), 28 -31 August 2007, Paris, France},
year = {2007},
editor = {P. Baptiste and G. Kendall and A. Munier-Kordon and F. Sourd},
pages = {426--430},
note = {Paper},
abstract = {When facing the task of replenishing customers with stable demand rates on a long-term basis, the natural approach is to set up a cyclic distribution pattern. In this cyclic approach, customers are grouped into tours and tours are assigned to the available vehicle fleet. To ensure that a vehicle can feasibly make all tours that are assigned to it, the cycle times of these tours need to be aligned. This paper presents a new heuristic that aligns delivery frequencies of multiple tours that have to be made by a single vehicle, with the objective of minimizing cost rates. Computational experiments are set up to evaluate the performance of the new heuristic and compare it to an existing heuristic.},
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