Research work dealing with the vehicle routing problem has not paid adequate attention to the cases where the demand for services at certain nodes is a random variable. This paper develops an approach to the vehicle routing problem for the case of stochastic demand. The approach is based on the simulated annealing technique. It is illustrated with a numerical example.
A simulated annealing technique approach to the vehicle routing problem in the case of stochastic demand
Transportation Planning and Technology ; 16 , 4 ; 261-273
1992-03-01
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