Abstract

Vehicle routing optimization problem is one of the major research topics in logistics distribution field. Suitable vehicle routing selection is vital to reduce the logistics cost. The paper presents a hybrid optimization method to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows. In the hybrid optimization method, discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to assign the customers on routes and simulated annealing (SA) algorithm to avoid becoming trapped in local optimum. The simulation results have shown that the proposed method is feasible and effective for the vehicle routing problem with time windows.

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