Improvement of Hybrid Heuristic Algorithm for Solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem is the most elementary version of the vehicle routing problem, where it represents a generalization of vehicle routing problems. It is an important problem in the fields of distribution, transportation and logistics which involves finding a set of routes, starting and ends in a warehouse for, that together cover a range of clients. The proposed methodology in this research was based on Cluster-First Route-Second method. There are two proposed hybrid algorithms used to implement that methodology, the Sweep-Nearest Neighbour algorithm and the Sweep-Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm was used instead of Nearest Neighbour algorithm to enhance the performance in finding the shortest routes. The two hybrid proposed algorithms were applied in a real case study and the results were compared. From the experimental results, it observed that particle swarm optimization was added more enhancement for finding the best route with the minimum travelling costs.

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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].