Title
On Modeling Stochastic Travel and Service Times in Vehicle Routing
Abstract
Vehicle routing problems with stochastic travel and service times (VRPSTT) consist of designing transportation routes of minimal expected cost over a network where travel and service times are represented by random variables. Most of the existing approaches for VRPSTT are conceived to exploit the properties of the distributions assumed for the random variables. Therefore, these methods are tied to a given family of distributions and subject to strong modeling assumptions. We propose an alternative way to model travel and service times in VRPSTT without making many assumptions regarding such distributions. To illustrate our approach, we embed it into a state-of-the-art routing engine and use it to conduct experiments on instances with different travel and service time distributions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1287/trsc.2015.0601
TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
vehicle routing,stochastic travel times,stochastic service times,Phase-type distributions
Mathematical optimization,Vehicle routing problem,Random variable,Stochastic process,Exploit,Expected cost,Mathematical model,Travel time,Service time,Mathematics,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
SP2
0041-1655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.46
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
andres gomez1123.54
ricardo marino290.46
Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei36611.78
Andrés L. Medaglia4282.76
Jorge Mendoza5282.05