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Enforcing Structural Robustness for Vehicle Routing Plans Despite Stochastic Demands

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In this paper we propose an approach to derive a structurally robust solution of the capacitated dynamic vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands. The approach designs an a priori plan that minimizes transportation costs while allowing to accommodate changes in the demands without losing structural properties such as number of vehicles or optimality. We compare the proposed approach with stochastic programming with recourse. Considering a benchmark dataset, computational results show that the robust approach outperforms stochastic programming with recourse.

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  1. International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Marcella Bernardo

  2. Faculty of Production Engineering/BIBA Bremer Institute für Produktion und Logistik, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Jürgen Pannek

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  1. Fachbereich 4 - Produktionstechnik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Michael Freitag

  2. Fachbereich 7 - Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Herbert Kotzab

  3. Fachbereich 4 - Produktionstechnik, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Jürgen Pannek

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Bernardo, M., Pannek, J. (2018). Enforcing Structural Robustness for Vehicle Routing Plans Despite Stochastic Demands. In: Freitag, M., Kotzab, H., Pannek, J. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. LDIC 2018. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74225-0_52

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