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A Relax and Fix Approach to Solve the Fixed Charge Network Design Problem with User-Optimal Flow

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Due to the constant development of society, increasing quantities of commodities have to be transported in large urban centers. Therefore, network planning problems arise as tools to support decision-making, aiming to meet the need of finding efficient ways to perform such transportations. This paper reviews a bi-level formulation, a one level formulation obtained by applying the complementary slackness theorem, Bellman’s optimality conditions, Big-M Linearization and also presents a heuristic procedure, through combining a randomized constructive algorithm with an improved Relax-and-Fix heuristic, so high quality solutions could be found.

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This work was supported by CAPES (Process Number: BEX 9877/13-4) and by Laboratoire d’Informatique d’Avignon, Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon, France. Luidi Simonetti is partially funded by CNPq grants 304793/2011-6.

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González, P.H., Simonetti, L.G., de Jesus Martinhon, C.A., Santos, E., Michelon, P.Y.P. (2015). A Relax and Fix Approach to Solve the Fixed Charge Network Design Problem with User-Optimal Flow. In: Pinson, E., Valente, F., Vitoriano, B. (eds) Operations Research and Enterprise Systems. ICORES 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 509. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17509-6_12

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