Research on Cold Chain Logistics Distribution Route Based on Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm

Table 2

Parameters setting of the IACO approach.

Symbol	Description	Value
	1	Pheromone factor
	3	Expected heuristic factor
	0.4	Pheromone volatility
	0.33	Weight coefficient of transport time
	0.33	Weight coefficient of transport cooling
	0.33	Weight coefficient of mean road patency
	300	Maximization iterations
	21	Total number of customer points
	8	Total number of distribution vehicles
	125	Total distribution vehicle capacity