Parallel Tabu search heuristics for the dynamic multi-vehicle dial-a-ride problem

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Attanasio;Jean-François Cordeau;Gianpaolo Ghiani;Gilbert Laporte

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro di Eccellenza sul Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni, Università degli Studi della Calabria, 87030 Rende (CS), Italy;Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, HEC Montréal 3000 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Canada H3T 2A7;Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, Università degli Studi di Lecce, 73100 Lecce, Italy;Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, HEC Montréal 3000 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Canada H3T 2A7

  • Venue:
  • Parallel Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In the Dial-a-Ride problem (DARP) users specify transportation requests between origins and destinations to be served by vehicles. In the dynamic DARP, requests are received throughout the day and the primary objective is to accept as many requests as possible while satisfying operational constraints. This article describes and compares a number of parallel implementations of a Tabu search heuristic previously developed for the static DARP, i.e., the variant of the problem where all requests are known in advance. Computational results show that the proposed algorithms are able to satisfy a high percentage of user requests.