Research Article

An Adaptive Data-Driven Approach to Solve Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems in Logistics

Table 4

Results of testing on real data of a distribution company—divided delivery.

Instance code [8]Number of customersAlgorithm solution costNumber of available vehiclesNumber of vehicles usedNumber of depotsComments

1801201891189.632761All constraints met. () Because of the SD constraint, vehicle J92-T-826, which can only service customer 139007, had two routes during the day. The orders of customer 139007 were divided into two deliveries. In accordance with that, the working time of the vehicles is updated for vehicles which are found in more than one routing, respectively.

An asterisk marks the fact that one vehicle made 2 deliveries (routes) in one day.