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Reoptimization Approaches for the Vehicle-Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands

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  • Nicola Secomandi

    (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213)

  • François Margot

    (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213)

Abstract
We consider the vehicle-routing problem with stochastic demands (VRPSD) under reoptimization. We develop and analyze a finite-horizon Markov decision process (MDP) formulation for the single-vehicle case and establish a partial characterization of the optimal policy. We also propose a heuristic solution methodology for our MDP, named partial reoptimization, based on the idea of restricting attention to a subset of all the possible states and computing an optimal policy on this restricted set of states. We discuss two families of computationally efficient partial reoptimization heuristics and illustrate their performance on a set of instances with up to and including 100 customers. Comparisons with an existing heuristic from the literature and a lower bound computed with complete knowledge of customer demands show that our best partial reoptimization heuristics outperform this heuristic and are on average no more than 10%--13% away from this lower bound, depending on the type of instances.

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  • Nicola Secomandi & François Margot, 2009. "Reoptimization Approaches for the Vehicle-Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 57(1), pages 214-230, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:57:y:2009:i:1:p:214-230
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0520
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