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A synchronized arc routing problem (SyARP) for snow plowing operations is introduced. Given a network of streets and a fleet of snow plowing vehicles, the SyARP consists of determining a set of routes such that all streets, some of which have multiple lanes, are plowed by using synchronized vehicles, and the ending time of the longest route is minimized. A mathematical formulation and an adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic are proposed. The performance of the proposed solution procedure is evaluated over a large set of instances. Computational results reveal that the proposed procedure yields good quality feasible solutions.
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Salazar-Aguilar, M.A., Langevin, A., Laporte, G. (2011). An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Heuristic for a Snow Plowing Problem with Synchronized Routes. In: Pahl, J., Reiners, T., Voß, S. (eds) Network Optimization. INOC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6701. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21527-8_46
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