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A Hybrid Local Search for the Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem

Alexey Khmelev, Yury Kochetov

Abstract


In this paper we study the split delivery vehicle routing problem (SDVRP) which is a variant of the classical capacitated vehicle routing problem in which a customer’s demand can be split among several vehicles. For this NP-hard problem we show that there exists an optimal solution which can be encoded by a permutation of customers. As a result, we can divide the SDVRP into two subproblems: find the best permutation and find the best vehicle routes for an arbitrary permutation. These subproblems are NP-hard. Based on this approach, we design a hybrid metaheuristic which combines the Variable Neighborhood Decent and Stochastic Tabu Search methods for the first subproblem, and two fast decoding heuristics for the second subproblem. Computational results indicate that the proposed method is very competitive. It improves 23 best known solutions on the 95 available test instances with number of customers up to 288.

Keywords


local search, metaheuristic, large neighborhood, diversification.

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