Designing a hybrid intelligent transportation system for optimization of goods distribution network routing problem

Abstract

Given that finding the right and appropriate route in the daytime and busy city with the occurred traffic limitations is a major problem that not only causes inefficient performance in distribution networks but also causes irreparable environmental damage to society. This study focuses on improving the routing of the goods distribution network using the intelligent transportation system. In this regard, first, the problem is modeled, and then an intelligent transportation system is combined with some meta-heuristic algorithms to solve it. In the proposed algorithm, we first use the clustering algorithm to cluster location of customers and then create sub-clusters based on the time window. The proposed routes are created by using the genetic and particle swarm optimization meta-heuristic algorithms as the static part of the approach, and if the traffic conditions change, the Vehicular Ad - hoc Network (Vanet), which is one of the sub-systems of the intelligent transportation system as the dynamic part of the approach checks the new traffic conditions and sends the new information to the proposed algorithms to recheck the route. The Aarhus-Denmark data set is selected due to having urban traffic information, meteorology, and urban areas. This is related to the City Pulse project. According to the obtained results, in terms of reducing the cost of transmission, including the cost of service delay and total cost of moving, the proposed method reached better solutions comparing to the meta-heuristic algorithms of literature.