On the influence of GVR in vehicle routing

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Tavares;Penousal Machado;Francisco B. Pereira;Ernesto Costa

  • Affiliations:
  • CISUC, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal;ISEC, Quinta da Nora, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal;ISEC, Quinta da Nora, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal;CISUC, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030 Coimbra, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A comparative study is made between a new evolutionary approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and a standard evolutionary model, based on Path Representation. Genetic Vehicle Representation (GVR) is the new two-level representational scheme designed to deal in an effective way with all the information needed by candidate solutions. Experimental results, obtained from a set of VRP instances, show performance improvements when GVR is used.