The Windy Clustered Prize-Collecting Arc-Routing Problem

  • Authors:
  • Ángel Corberán;Elena Fernández;Carles Franquesa;José María Sanchis

  • Affiliations:
  • Statistics and Operations Research Department, University of Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Spain;Statistics and Operations Research Department, Technical University of Catalonia, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;Statistics and Operations Research Department, Technical University of Catalonia, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;Applied Mathematics Department, Technical University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Transportation Science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper introduces the windy clustered prize-collecting arc-routing problem. It is an arc-routing problem where each demand edge is associated with a profit that is collected once if the edge is serviced, independent of the number of times the edge is traversed. It is further required that if a demand edge is serviced, then all the demand edges of its component are also serviced. A mathematical programming formulation is given and some polyhedral results including several facet-defining and valid inequalities are presented. The separation problem for the different families of inequalities is studied. Numerical results from computational experiments are analyzed.