Author(s)

ČIČKOVÁ Zuzana, PEKÁR Juraj, BREZINA Ivan, REIFF Marian

Department of Operations Research and Econometrics, University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia.

The paper presents heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with selection of inter-depots. The goal of the proposed model is to schedule shipments of goods from the central depot to the inter-depots and finally to the endpoint customers, so that as inter-depots are considered the existing capacities of endpoints customers. In given type of transportation it can be expected to use two types of vehicles: large capacity vehicles ensuring the distribution of goods from the central warehouse and small capacity vehicles ensuring the delivery of goods from inter-depots for late shipment to other cus-tomers. The principle of the model is illustrated on three demonstrative instances.

multi-depot vehicle routing problem; replenishment; mathematical programming

Č. Zuzana, P. Juraj, B. Ivan and R. Marian, "Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Selec-tion of Inter-Depots," Technology and Investment, Vol. 4 No. 1B, 2013, pp. 78-82. doi: 10.4236/ti.2013.41B013.