In this paper we consider two important objects of transportation, cost and customer satisfaction. The latter mainly depends on vehicle arrival time and expecting time of the customer. Whereas in the reality, road conditions varies at different time periods and affect the vehicle travelling speed. Meanwhile, transport cost, including fuel consumption, relate to load of vehicle. Correspondingly, mathematical model of vehicle routing problem with soft time windows and road factor (VRPSTWRF) was established in which transport cost, fuel consumption and customer satisfaction are considered. Multi-agent ant colony optimization is proposed in which the features of agent perceiving and reacting to the environment are applied reasonably. Adaptive information heuristic factor and pheromone expectation heuristic factor changing mechanism is used to improve global convergence ability. Pheromone is updated adaptively, the fuel consumption rate also considered, to ensure the convergence speed. 3-opt strategy was introduced to improve local search ability. Thus, multi-agent ant colony optimization (MACO) was constructed and used to solve 40-customer VRPSTWRF model. Experiments show that MACO proposed is feasible and valid.


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    Title :

    Multi-agent ant colony optimization for vehicle routing problem with soft time windows and road condition


    Contributors:
    Huang Gewen (author) / Cai Yanguang (author) / Cai Hao (author)


    Publication date :

    2018




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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