Research Article

Research on Optimization Model of Logistics Transportation Truck Path considering Environmental Impact: Experimental Data from Xiqing District, Tianjin

Table 2

The sets, indices, and parameters used for solving the TPOM-EI.

ParameterDefinition

KSet of the ant colony
kIndex of ants
IterMaximum number of iterations
NCIteration counter, NC  Iter
Pheromone concentration on route (i, j)
Heuristic information concentration on route (i, j),
Weight of pheromone concentration
Weight of heuristic pheromone concentration
Pheromone retention capacity
QTotal amount of pheromone
SSet of access nodes
Total cost of the kth ant
Set of tabu list when kth ant is located at node i
Set of nodes allowed to be visited by the kth ant at node i
Probability of the kth ant moving from node i to node j
Sum of all previous n moving probabilities
RRandom number obeying [0, 1] uniform distribution
Preset parameter between 0 and 1
Total amount of pheromone released by the kth ant on route (i, j)
Total gap of pheromone on route (i, j)
Total cost of travel for ant