Cesar Alvarez Cruz

The vehicle allocation problem: alternative formulation and branch-and-price method

  • Alysson Machado Costa
  • Cesar Alvarez Cruz
  • Reinaldo Morabito
  • Pedro Munari
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Combinatorial Optimization, Linear, Cone and Semidefinite Programming Tags , , , ,

    The Vehicle Allocation Problem (VAP) consists of repositioning empty vehicles across a set of terminals over a given planning horizon so as to maximize the profits generated from serving demand for transportation of goods between pair of terminals. This problem has been classically modeled using an extended space-time network which captures the staging of the … Read more

    A branch-and-price method for the vehicle allocation problem

  • Cesar Alvarez Cruz
  • Reinaldo Morabito
  • Pedro Munari
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Integer Programming, Transportation Tags , , , ,

    The Vehicle Allocation Problem (VAP) consists of allocating a fleet of vehicles to attend to the expected demand for freight transportation between terminals along a finite multiperiod planning horizon. The objective is to maximize the profits generated for the completed services. The previous deterministic and stochastic approaches used heuristic procedures and approximations for solving large-scale … Read more