The aim of the article was to present a method for determining vehicle routes in a two-echelon distribution system, with particular emphasis on delivery punctuality. Special attention was paid to the necessity of using heuristic methods to solve the vehicle routing problem. An optimization task for determining timely transport in a two-echelon distribution system was formulated. The task was solved using clustering and genetic algorithms. Vehicle routes were determined using a proprietary computer application.Clustering and vehicle routing in 2-level distribution system
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The aim of the article was to present a method of routing optimization in the 2-level distribution system with special emphasis on terminable deliveries. Much attention is paid to the necessity of the heuristics methods usage for solving the vehicle routing problem. The vehicle routing in 2-level distribution system with customers’ time windows optimization task was formulated. This task was solved through the clustering procedure and genetic algorithm for vehicle routing. Vehicles’ routes were obtained with the usage of authors’ computer application. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 4/2012