A Multi Objective Stochastic P-Robust Model for Two-Echelon Location-Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Delivery and Time Windows (A Case Study)

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors
Mohammadreza Ghatreh Samani
Saeed Yaghoubi
Abbas Jokar
Abstract
Location-routing problem has several applications in real world problem that make it as an interesting subject in the literature. In this paper a two-echelon mathematical model is extended with assumption of multi product, simultaneous pickup and delivery and soft time window constraints. In this paper, two objective functions are expected to minimize. One is the location and transportation)fix vehicle cost and operating cost) cost and the other is the fuel consumption cost.
It is common to apply various approaches such as robust optimization for modeling of uncertainty .In this paper customer’s demand is uncertain with discrete values in different scenarios. This problem is formulated as a mixed integer programming using p-robust approach.
Finally, historical data of a spare part distributer company has been investigated. The result of numerical example shows that, it is possible to reduce the scenario cost considerably by avoiding a slight increment in expected costs of the system.
Keywords
location-routing problem
robust optimization
two-echelon
multi objective
simultaneous pickup and delivery
Subjects

  • Receive Date 21 September 2015
  • Revise Date 17 September 2016
  • Accept Date 17 September 2016