Towards Asymptotically Optimal One-to-One PDP Algorithms for Capacity 2+ Vehicles

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Abstract

We consider the one-to-one Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) in Euclidean Space with arbitrary dimension d, where n transportation requests are picked i.i.d. with a separate origin-destination pair for each object to be moved. First, we consider the problem from the customer perspective, where the objective is to compute a plan for transporting the objects such that the Euclidean distance traveled by the vehicles when carrying objects is minimized. We develop a polynomial time asymptotically optimal algorithm for vehicles with capacity o(2d√n) for this case including the realistic setting where the capacity of the vehicles is a fixed constant and d=2. This result also holds imposing LIFO constraints for loading and unloading objects. Secondly, we extend our algorithm to the classical single-vehicle PDP, where the objective is to minimize the total distance traveled by the vehicle and we present results indicating that the extended algorithm is asymptotically optimal for a fixed vehicle capacity, if the origins and destinations are picked i.i.d. using the same distribution.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Logistics - 9th International Conference, ICCL 2018, Proceedings
Number of pages11
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2018
Pages268-278
Publication statusPublished - 2018
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
ISSN0302-9743

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