The Profitable Close-Enough Arc Routing Problem

[EN] In this article, we deal with the Profitable Close-Enough Arc Routing Problem (PCEARP), which is an extension of the Close-Enough ARP (CEARP). The CEARP models the situation in which customers are not necessarily nodes of a network and the associated serviced can be performed from any traversed...

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Autores: Bianchessi, Nicola, Corberán, Ángel, Plana, Isaac, Reula, Miguel, Sanchís Llopis, José María|||0000-0002-0039-8122
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
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:10251/196711
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/196711
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Arc routing
Close-enough
Profits
Branch and cut
Polyhedra
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Sumario:[EN] In this article, we deal with the Profitable Close-Enough Arc Routing Problem (PCEARP), which is an extension of the Close-Enough ARP (CEARP). The CEARP models the situation in which customers are not necessarily nodes of a network and the associated serviced can be performed from any traversed edge that is close enough to the customer. It consists of finding a minimum cost tour that services all the customers. In the PCEARP, a profit is associated with each customer and it is collected (only once) when the customer is serviced. The goal is to find a tour maximizing the difference between the total profit collected and the travel distance. A formulation for this new problem and some valid inequalities are presented, and a polyhedral study of its feasible solutions is conducted. We propose a heuristic and a branch-and-cut procedure for solving the PCEARP, and their performance has been tested on several sets of instances with different characteristics.