A Centroid-based Heuristic Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

Authors

  • Kwangcheol Shin
  • Sangyong Han

Keywords:

Vehicle routing problem, heuristics, cluster-first route-second

Abstract

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is famous as a nondeterministic polynomial-time hard problem. This study proposes a centroid-based heuristic algorithm to solve the capacitated VRP in polynomial time. The proposed algorithm consists of three phases: cluster construction, cluster adjustment, and route establishment. At the cluster construction phase, the farthest node (customer) among un-clustered nodes is selected as a seed to form a cluster. The notion of the geometrical centre of a cluster is introduced in this study to be utilized at the cluster construction and the cluster adjustment phases. The proposed algorithm has a polynomial time complexity of O(n2.2). Experimental results on Augerat benchmark dataset show that the proposed 3-phase approach can result in smaller distances than the Sweep algorithm in more cases.

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Author Biographies

Kwangcheol Shin

Department of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
119, Moonji-Ro, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, 305-732, Korea

Sangyong Han

School of Computer Science and Engineering
Chung-Ang University
221 Heuksuk-Dong, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul, 156-756, Korea

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Published

2012-01-26

How to Cite

Shin, K., & Han, S. (2012). A Centroid-based Heuristic Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem. Computing and Informatics, 30(4), 721–732. Retrieved from http://147.213.75.17/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/192