Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Transportation & Logistics, Information & Communication, Smart City (TLICSC 2018)

The Application of Cuckoo Search Algorithm in the Path Planning of Logistics Vehicles with Time Windows

Authors
Lei Lei, Zhe Sun, Chun Ying, Shuhua Tan, Zhixin Sun
Corresponding Author
Lei Lei
Available Online December 2018.
DOI
10.2991/tlicsc-18.2018.34How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cuckoo Search Algorithm; Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows; meta-heuristic algorithms; logistic distribution.
Abstract

The vehicle routing problems (VRP) in logistics distribution has far-reaching significance to logistics companies in reducing transportation costs and improving service quality and efficiency. A lot of research has been devoted to solve VRP. However, in practical applications, with the increase of constraints and optimization objectives, the dimension and difficulty of the problem increase exponentially, which will lead to a dramatic increase in the complexity of the algorithm and a decrease in performance. Therefore, a more efficient and simple algorithm is needed. Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) is a new meta-heuristic algorithm proposed in 2009 with good global search capability and robustness, containing few parameters which has been validated to solve many optimization problems effectively. Therefore, this paper applies the CSA to solve the path planning problem of logistics vehicles, builds a vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) model, and validates that the CSA can effectively solve this optimization problem in an acceptable time by simulation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Transportation & Logistics, Information & Communication, Smart City (TLICSC 2018)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
December 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-621-1
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/tlicsc-18.2018.34How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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