Research Article

A Simulated Annealing Heuristic for the Capacitated Green Vehicle Routing Problem

Table 3

Scenarios for benchmark instances from Erdoğan and Miller-Hooks [12].

ScenarioDescriptionDetails

S1Uniform customer configuration impact10 instances of 20 uniform customer locations and 3 fixed AFS locations

S2Clustered customer configuration impact10 instances of 20 clustered customer locations with 3 fixed AFS locations

S3AFS configuration impact10 instances, half from S1 and half from S2, with 6 random AFS locations

S4Station density impact10 instances, half from 1 instance of S1 and half from 1 instance of S2,
with increasing the AFSs in increments of 2 from 2 to 10

Large 1Transitioning to AFV111 customers with 21 AFSs

Large 2Increasing the number of customers impactedIncreasing customer number from 200 to 500

Large 3Increasing AFS availability impactCustomers are fixed at 111, and AFSs are increased from 22 to 28 in increments of 2