Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313820 
Year of Publication: 
2024
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[Journal:] OR Spectrum [ISSN:] 1436-6304 [Volume:] 46 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer Berlin Heidelberg [Place:] Berlin/Heidelberg [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 1063-1097
Publisher: 
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin/Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Abstract For many variants of vehicle routing and scheduling problems solved by a branch-price-and-cut (BPC) algorithm, the pricing subproblem is an elementary shortest-path problem with resource constraints (SPPRC) typically solved by a dynamic-programming labeling algorithm. Solving the SPPRC subproblems consumes most of the total BPC computation time. Critical to the performance of the labeling algorithms and thus the BPC algorithm as a whole is the use of effective dominance rules. Classical dominance rules rely on a pairwise comparison of labels and have been used in many labeling algorithms. In contrast, partial dominance describes situations where several labels together are needed to dominate another label, which can then be safely discarded. In this work, we consider SPPRCs, where a linear tradeoff describes the relationship between two resources. We derive a unified partial dominance rule to be used in ad hoc labeling algorithms for solving such SPPRCs as well as insights into its practical implementation. We introduce partial dominance for two important variants of the vehicle routing problem, namely the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows with a partial recharge policy and the split-delivery vehicle routing problem with time windows (SDVRPTW). Computational experiments show the effectiveness of the approach, in particular for the SDVRPTW, leading to an average reduction of 20% of the total BPC computation time, with savings of 30% for the more difficult instances requiring more than 600 s of computation time.
Subjects: 
Branch-price-and-cut
Partial dominance
Column generation
Labeling algorithm
Vehicle routing and scheduling
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