A Heuristic Algorithm for Maximum Origin-Destination Flow Path in the Transportation Network

수송 네트워크에서 최대 물동량 경로문제의 근사해법

This paper studies a heuristic method for the Maximum Origin-Destination Flow Path (MODFP) in an acyclic transportation network. We construct a mathematical formulation for finding the MODFP. Then by applying Benders' partitioning method, we generate two subproblems which should be solved in turn so that they may give an optimal solution. We solve one subproblem by an optimal seeking algorithm and the other by a hueristic method. so that, we finally obtain a good solution. The computational complexity of calculating the optimal solution of the first subproblem is 0(mn) and that of calculating the heuristic solution of the other subproblem is $0(n^2).$ From the computational experiments, we estimated the performance of the heuristic method as being 99.3% and the computing time relative to optimal algorithm as being 28.76%.