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Tabu Search Heuristics for the Arc Routing Problem with Intermediate Facilities under Capacity and Length Restrictions

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This paper deals with the Arc Routing Problem with Intermediate Facilities under Capacity and Length Restrictions(CLARPIF), a variant of the classical Capacitated Arc Routing Problem(CARP), in which vehicles may unload or replenish at intermediate facilities and the length of any route may not exceed a specified upper bound. Three heuristics are developed for the CLARPIF: the first is a constructive procedure based on a partitioning approach while the second and the third are tailored Tabu Search procedures. Computational results on a set of benchmark instances with up to 50 vertices and 92 required edges are presented and analyzed.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università di Lecce, Strada per Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy

    Gianpaolo Ghiani

  2. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università della Calabria, 87036, Rende (CS), Italy

    Francesca Guerriero & Roberto Musmanno

  3. Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, HEC Montréal, 3000, Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Canada, H3T 2A7

    Gilbert Laporte

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Ghiani, G., Guerriero, F., Laporte, G. et al. Tabu Search Heuristics for the Arc Routing Problem with Intermediate Facilities under Capacity and Length Restrictions. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms 3, 209–223 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JMMA.0000038618.37710.f8

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