Heuristiken zur Ein-Depot-Tourenplanung
Reference
Barbara König. Heuristiken zur Ein-Depot-Tourenplanung. Master's thesis, Technische Universität München, 1995. (in German).
Abstract
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a generalization of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). An amount of goods is assigned to every node of a graph and they are to be collected by vehicles restricted in their capacity and time and brought to a depot. The aim is to minimize the overall costs. The decision problem for vehicle routing is NP-complete, which means that there probably is no polynomial-time algorithm for VRP and we are forced to resort to heuristics. Several heuristics are introduced, including Sweep, several variants of the Savings-procedure, a giant tour algorithm and a
-opt algorithm for the improvement of existing tours. The heuristics are tested on graphs representing real-world road networks and are compared in their results and their computational complexity.
Suggested BibTeX entry:
@mastersthesis{Koe95,
author = {Barbara K{\"o}nig},
note = {(in German)},
school = {Technische Universit{\"a}t M{\"u}nchen},
title = {Heuristiken zur {E}in-{D}epot-{T}ourenplanung},
year = {1995}
}

