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2024

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An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search For The Multi-Vehicle Profitable Tour Problem With Flexible Compartments And Mandatory Customers, Vincent F. Yu, Nabila Yuraisyah Salsabila, Aldy Gunawan, Anggun Nurfitriani Handoko May 2024

An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search For The Multi-Vehicle Profitable Tour Problem With Flexible Compartments And Mandatory Customers, Vincent F. Yu, Nabila Yuraisyah Salsabila, Aldy Gunawan, Anggun Nurfitriani Handoko

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The home-refill delivery system is a business model that addresses the concerns of plastic waste and its impact on the environment. It allows customers to pick up their household goods at their doorsteps and refill them into their own containers. However, the difficulty in accessing customers’ locations and product consolidations are undeniable challenges. To overcome these issues, we introduce a new variant of the Profitable Tour Problem, named the multi-vehicle profitable tour problem with flexible compartments and mandatory customers (MVPTPFC-MC). The objective is to maximize the difference between the total collected profit and the traveling cost. We model the proposed …