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Solving Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with Real Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery Using Differential Evolution

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Innovations in Bio-inspired Computing and Applications

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 237))

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In this study, Stochastic VRP with Real Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery (SVRPSPD) is attempted the first time and fitted to a public transportation system in Anbessa City Bus Service Enterprise (ACBSE), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is modeled and fitted with real data obtained from the enterprise. Due to its complexity, large instances of VRP and/or SVRPSPD are hard to solve using exact methods. Instead, various heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms are used to find feasible VRP solutions. In this work the Differential Evolution (DE) is used to optimize bus routes of ACBSE. The findings of the study shows that, DE algorithm is stable and able to reduce the estimated number of vehicles significantly. As compared to the traditional and exact algorithms it has exhibited better used fitness function.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Eshetie Berhan & Daniel Kitaw

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Pavel Krömer & Václav Snášel

  3. IT4 Innovations, VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

    Pavel Krömer, Ajith Abraham & Václav Snášel

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Berhan, E., Krömer, P., Kitaw, D., Abraham, A., Snášel, V. (2014). Solving Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with Real Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery Using Differential Evolution. In: Abraham, A., Krömer, P., Snášel, V. (eds) Innovations in Bio-inspired Computing and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 237. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01781-5_18

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