Shandong Science ›› 2023, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 78-89.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.2023.03.010

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Electric vehicle pickup and delivery based on link recharging and time windows

CHEN Qing(), XU Xiaoming*()   

  1. School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
  • Received:2022-07-18 Online:2023-06-20 Published:2023-06-07

Abstract:

In this paper, the electric vehicles pickup and delivery problem considering link recharging and time windows was studied. Aims to minimize the total travel distance of vehicles, considering the constraints of vehicle capacity, time windows and battery capacity, etc., to determine a group of optimal vehicle routes. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model; a variable neighborhood search algorithm is proposed to solve it. Numerical instances are used to verify the model properties and algorithm performance. The results show that the proposed algorithm is only 0.08% worse than the commercial solver CPLEX in small scale instances; however, in large scale instances, the algorithm can obtain high quality feasible solutions in the specified time, in contrast to the CPLEX.

Key words: logistics engineering, pickup and delivery problems, variable neighborhood search algorithm, electric vehicle, recharging link

CLC Number: 

  • U121