on the ant colony algorithm with genetic algorithm is proposed. Findings: simulation experiment indicates that the result … heuristic algorithm. On the basis of building the model of multi-depots vehicle scheduling problem, in order to improve the … efficiency of the multiple depots vehicle routing, the paper puts forward a fusion algorithm on multiple depots vehicle routing …

a delivery section and a pickup section and (ii) loading at the long side. A hybrid algorithm is proposed for the 3L …-VRPSDPTW consisting of an adaptive large neighbourhood search for the routing and different packing heuristics for the loading part of the …

iterated local search algorithm is designed for the simultaneous solution of the subproblems. By means of extensive numerical …

developed two metaheuristics—a differential evolution (DE) algorithm and an adaptive large neighborhood search (ALNS)—to solve … computational results, we can see that the proposed heuristics outperformed the best practices that are currently in use. The DE …,750 baht per year) lower cost than that of current practice. Comparing the proposed heuristics, ALNS achieved a 1.01% lower …