Code
01N00512
Duration
01 January 2012 → 01 October 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Statistics
- Numerical methods
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Social sciences
- Business administration and accounting
- Management
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Engineering and technology
- Automotive engineering
Keywords
metaheuristics
operations research
vehicle routing problems
Project description
Logistic companies look for the optimal order to visit customers. However, in practice, the travel time between two customers can vary immensely during the day. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to “route around traffic”: planning visits in a way to avoid congestion whenever possible. Our goal is to develop efficient metaheuristics that can solve these “time-dependent routing problems”, in real-time.