A deterministic tabu search algorithm for the capacitated arc routing problem

  • Authors:
  • José Brandão;Richard Eglese

  • Affiliations:
  • Dep. de Gestão, Escola de Economia e Gestão, Universidade do Minho, Largo do Paço, 4704 -553 Braga, Portugal;Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster LA1 4YX, UK

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The capacitated arc routing problem (CARP) is a difficult optimisation problem in vehicle routing with applications where a service must be provided by a set of vehicles on specified roads. A heuristic algorithm based on tabu search is proposed and tested on various sets of benchmark instances. The computational results show that the proposed algorithm produces high quality results within a reasonable computing time. Some new best solutions are reported for a set of test problems used in the literature.