Research Article

A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Multi-Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem

Table 1

Notations applied in the MCVRP model.

SymbolDescription of symbol

Node set
Customer subset
Product set
Distance between nodes and
Quantity of product to be carried from node
Capacity of the vehicle compartment dedicated to product
Equals 1 if the vehicle travels from node to and is zero otherwise
Total quantity of product p while the carried vehicle departing from node