CAPACITATED VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM
Publication/Publisher
International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH
Publication Date
Mar 2019
Cost of transportation of goods and services is an interesting topic in today’s society. The
Capacitated vehicle routing problem, which is been consider in this research, is one of the variants
of the vehicle routing problem. In this research we develop a reinforcement learning technique to
find optimal paths from a depot to the set of customers while also considering the capacity of the
vehicles, in order to reduce the cost of transportation of goods and services. Our basic assumptions
are; each vehicle originates from a depot, service the customers and return to the depot, the vehicles
are homogeneous. We solve the CVRP with an exact method; column generation, goole’s
operation research tool and reinforcement learning and compare their solutions. Our objective is
to solve a large-size of vehicle routing problem to optimality.