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TY - JOUR
T1 - Fast upper and lower bounds for a large-scale real-world arc routing problem
AU - Boyacı, Burak
AU - Dang, Thu
AU - Letchford, Adam
PY - 2023/1/31
Y1 - 2023/1/31
N2 - Arc routing problems (ARPs) are a special kind of vehicle routing problem, in which the demands are located on edges or arcs, instead of nodes. There is a huge literature on ARPs, and a variety of exact and heuristic algorithms are available. Recently, however, we encountered some real-life ARPs with over 10 000 roads, which is much larger than those usually considered in the literature. For these problems, we develop fast upper- and lower-bounding procedures. We also present extensive computational results.
AB - Arc routing problems (ARPs) are a special kind of vehicle routing problem, in which the demands are located on edges or arcs, instead of nodes. There is a huge literature on ARPs, and a variety of exact and heuristic algorithms are available. Recently, however, we encountered some real-life ARPs with over 10 000 roads, which is much larger than those usually considered in the literature. For these problems, we develop fast upper- and lower-bounding procedures. We also present extensive computational results.
KW - vehicle routing
KW - arc routing
KW - combinatorial optimisation
KW - integer programming
U2 - 10.1002/net.22120
DO - 10.1002/net.22120
M3 - Journal article
VL - 81
SP - 107
EP - 124
JO - Networks
JF - Networks
SN - 0028-3045
IS - 1
ER -