Research Article

A Simulated Annealing Heuristic for the Capacitated Green Vehicle Routing Problem

Table 6

SA performance for small CGVRP instances.

SampleCPLEXSA
Exact solutionNumber of toursCustomers servedTotal costNumber of toursCustomers servedTimeAbsolute diff CPLEX
(miles)(miles)(s)(%)

20c3sUCAP11632.015201632.0252012.980.00
20c3sUCAP21542.616201574.1362013.672.04
20c3sUCAP31624.736201624.7362012.510.00
20c3sUCAP41462.895201462.8952011.990.00
20c3sUCAP51661.296201661.2962011.880.00
20c3sUCAP61537.075201537.0752012.840.00
20c3sUCAP71586.426201586.4262012.650.00
20c3sUCAP81705.826201705.8262012.140.00
20c3sUCAP91708.16201708.162012.870.00
20c3sUCAP101180.864201212.2452012.632.66

20c3sCCAP11173.094201173.142012.680.00
20c3sCCAP21539.345191567.1661912.841.81
20c3sCCAP3879.863312879.8623129.760.00
20c3sCCAP4978.428418978.42841812.170.00
20c3sCCAP52189.777192138.6971912.902.33
20c3sCCAP62332.47172332.471711.830.00
20c3sCCAP71054.98361054.98368.000.00
20c3sCCAP83139.929183117.5591813.590.71
20c3sCCAP91643.555191687.4361912.272.67
20c3sCCAP102583.428152571.2491512.440.47

S1_2i6sCAP1567.396201567.3962012.520.00
S1_4i6sCAP1396.695201396.6952013.420.00
S1_6i6sCAP1519.75201519.752012.930.00
S1_8i6sCAP1623.576201623.5762012.680.00
S1_10i6sCAP1173.044201173.0442013.050.00
S2_2i6sCAP1633.176201645.8862012.730.78
S2_4i6sCAP1498.55191504.4261912.740.40
S2_6i6sCAP2625.978202626.4682013.540.02
S2_8i6sCAP2158.357162174.8571611.260.76
S2_10i6sCAP1486.116161552.7861612.354.49

S1_4i2sCAP1581.566201581.5662012.740.00
S1_4i4sCAP1460.095201459.4952012.750.04
S1_4i6sCAP1396.695201396.6952012.980.00
S1_4i8sCAP1396.695201396.6952012.740.00
S1_4i10sCAP1395.465201395.1652012.980.02
S2_4i2sCAP978.428418978.42841811.960.00
S2_4i4sCAP1364.985191365.0851912.880.01
S2_4i6sCAP1353.035201353.0352012.220.00
S2_4i8sCAP1353.035201353.0352012.650.00
S2_4i10sCAP1353.135201353.0252012.300.01

Average12.450.48

a indicates a nonoptimal solution because the model is relaxed by determining the number of tours.