Development of a Planning System for the Routing and Scheduling of Vehicles in Pickup and Delivery Services

수배송 서비스를 위한 운송계획 최적화 시스템 개발

  • Choi, Ji-Young (Logistics Technology Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) ;
  • Lee, Tae-Han (Department of Industrial and Information Systems Engineering, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Lim, Jae-Min (Logistics Technology Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)
  • 최지영 (한국전자통신연구원 물류기술팀) ;
  • 이태한 (전북대학교 산업정보시스템공학과, 공업기술연구센터) ;
  • 임재민 (한국전자통신연구원 물류기술팀)
  • Received : 20060300
  • Accepted : 20060600
  • Published : 2006.09.30

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a planning system for the routing and scheduling of vehicles in pickup and delivery service such as door-to-door parcel service. Efficient routing and scheduling of vehicles is very important in pickup and delivery service. The routing and scheduling problem is a variation of vehicle routing problem which has various realistic constraints. We develop a heuristic algorithm based on tabu search to solve the routing and scheduling problem. We develop a routing and scheduling system installed the algorithm as a planning engine. The system manage the basic data and uses GIS data to make a realistic route plan.

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