Title
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Partial Outsourcing
Abstract
AbstractThis paper introduces the vehicle routing problem with partial outsourcing (VRPPO) in which a customer can be served by a single private vehicle, by a common carrier, or by both a single private vehicle and a common carrier. As such, it is a variant of the vehicle routing problem with private fleet and common carrier (VRPPC). The objective of the VRPPO is to minimize fixed and variable costs of the private fleet plus the outsourcing cost. We propose two different path-based formulations for the VRPPO and solve these with a branch-and-price-and-cut solution method. For each path-based formulation, two different pricing procedures are designed and used when solving the linear relaxations by column generation. To assess the quality of the solution methods and gain insight in potential cost improvements compared with the VRPPC, we perform tests on two instance sets with up to 100 customers from the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1287/trsc.2019.0940
Periodicals
Keywords
DocType
Volume
vehicle routing problem,split delivery,private fleet and common carrier,outsourcing,exact algorithms
Journal
54
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1526-5447
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Annelieke Baller100.34
Said Dabia2314.11
Wout Dullaert343925.70
Daniele Vigo42054149.20