Author(s)

Joseph Hubert Wilck IV, Tom M. Cavalier

Industrial and Information Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.

The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem (SDVRP) allows customers to be assigned to multiple routes. Two hybrid genetic algorithms are developed for the SDVRP and computational results are given for thirty-two data sets from previous literature. With respect to the total travel distance and computer time, the genetic algorithm compares favorably versus a column generation method and a two-phase method.

Vehicle Routing Problem; Transportation; Genetic Algorithm

J. Wilck IV and T. Cavalier, "A Genetic Algorithm for the Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem," American Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2012, pp. 207-216. doi: 10.4236/ajor.2012.22024.