Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 14, 2020, no. 14, 669 - 677
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https://doi.org/10.12988/ams.2020.912157
Optimal Predictive Algorithm for
the Pickup and Delivery Problem with
Time Windows and Scheduled Lines:
Innovative Routing Transport Systems
F. Nahayo
1
and M. Bigirimana
2
1
Research University Laboratory in Applied Statistics Modeling and Engineering
”LURMISTA”, Institute of Applied Statistics ”ISTA”
University of Burundi, Burundi
2
Research University Laboratory in Applied Statistics Modeling and Engineering
”LURMISTA”,University of Burundi, Burundi
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Abstract
This paper concerns the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time
Windows and Scheduled Lines ”PDPTW-SL” by modeling it mathe-
matically on the one hand with the help of dynamic programming, on
the other hand, it presents two optimal predictive methods of com-
binatorial optimization intended to solve it and which must provide
stable and high accuracy solutions. The Pickup and Delivery Problem
with Time Windows and Scheduled lines aims at routing a given set of
vehicles to transport freight requests from their origins to their corre-
sponding destinations, where the requests can use scheduled passenger
transportation services during a stump of their journeys. We describe
the PDPTW-SL as a mixed-integer program. Computational results on
a set of small-size instances provide a clear understanding of the benefits
of preprocessing step and valid inequalities using scheduled line services
as a part of freights journey.
Keywords: Dynamic programming, Pickup and Delivery Problem, Rout-
ing and Scheduling, Transport Systems, Combinatorial optimization