A reliability-extended simheuristic for the sustainable vehicle routing problem with stochastic travel times and demands

[EN] Real-life transport operations are often subject to uncertainties in travel time or customers' demands. Additionally, these uncertainties greatly impact the economic, environmental, and social costs of vehicle routing plans. Thus, analysing the sustainability costs of transportation ac...

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Autores: Abdullahi, Hassana, Reyes-Rubiano, Lorena, Ouelhadj, Djamila, Faulin, Javier, Juan, Angel A.|||0000-0003-1392-1776
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/221203
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/221203
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Transportation
Uncertainty modelling
Hybrid metaheuristics
Simheuristics
Vehicle routing problem
Reliability analysis
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Sumario:[EN] Real-life transport operations are often subject to uncertainties in travel time or customers' demands. Additionally, these uncertainties greatly impact the economic, environmental, and social costs of vehicle routing plans. Thus, analysing the sustainability costs of transportation activities and reliability in the presence of uncertainties is essential for decision makers. Accordingly, this paper addresses the Sustainable Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Travel times and Demands. This paper proposes a novel weighted stochastic recourse model that models travel time and demand uncertainties. To solve this challenging problem, we propose an extended simheuristic that integrates reliability analysis to evaluate the reliability of the generated solutions in the presence of uncertainties. An extensive set of computational experiments is carried out to illustrate the potential of the proposed approach and analyse the influence of stochastic components on the different sustainability dimensions.