Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm

Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is closely related to real-life situations, particularly in logistics. Therefore, this research aimed to 1) solve VRP problem faced by a waste management company by comparing three algorithms, namely guided local search, tabu search, and simulated annealing. 2) summariz...

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Main Authors: Michael Anderson, Sumarsono Sudarto
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Published: Universitas Indonesia 2025-03-01
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description Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is closely related to real-life situations, particularly in logistics. Therefore, this research aimed to 1) solve VRP problem faced by a waste management company by comparing three algorithms, namely guided local search, tabu search, and simulated annealing. 2) summarize the development of VRP by comparing several variants, and 3) assess the environmental impact through sensitivity analysis. The combined VRP variants are described as the Heterogeneous Fleet Distance Constrained Capacitated VRP with Time Windows because they reflect the current situation of the waste management company. In this context, a model was developed using Python programming language, specifically with a library called Ortools by Google, which is specialized for combinatorial optimization problem. The tests showed that the best algorithm for solving VRP was the path most constrained arc, used as the initial solution generator and guided local search as the optimization algorithm. This combination produced the best result for distance optimization, though it did not address workload balance and average working time. Another conclusion is that the total distance would increase by having more constraints and dimensions.
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spelling doaj-art-326ce11810a84fd6a67dccb02be73d192025-08-20T02:40:29ZengUniversitas IndonesiaInternational Journal of Technology2086-96142087-21002025-03-0116242343210.14716/ijtech.v16i2.59375937Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithmMichael Anderson0Sumarsono Sudarto1Swiss German University, The Prominence Tower Alam Sutera, Banten 15143, IndonesiaMercu Buana University, Meruya Selatan, Kecamatan Kembangan, DKI Jakarta 11650, IndonesiaVehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is closely related to real-life situations, particularly in logistics. Therefore, this research aimed to 1) solve VRP problem faced by a waste management company by comparing three algorithms, namely guided local search, tabu search, and simulated annealing. 2) summarize the development of VRP by comparing several variants, and 3) assess the environmental impact through sensitivity analysis. The combined VRP variants are described as the Heterogeneous Fleet Distance Constrained Capacitated VRP with Time Windows because they reflect the current situation of the waste management company. In this context, a model was developed using Python programming language, specifically with a library called Ortools by Google, which is specialized for combinatorial optimization problem. The tests showed that the best algorithm for solving VRP was the path most constrained arc, used as the initial solution generator and guided local search as the optimization algorithm. This combination produced the best result for distance optimization, though it did not address workload balance and average working time. Another conclusion is that the total distance would increase by having more constraints and dimensions.https://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/article/view/5937guided local searchheterogenous fleet distance constrained capacitated vehicle routing problem (vrp) with time windowstabu searchtraveling salesmansimulated annealing
spellingShingle Michael Anderson
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Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm
International Journal of Technology
guided local search
heterogenous fleet distance constrained capacitated vehicle routing problem (vrp) with time windows
tabu search
traveling salesman
simulated annealing
title Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm
title_full Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm
title_fullStr Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm
title_full_unstemmed Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm
title_short Vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company: a comparative analysis of guided local search, simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm
title_sort vehicle routing problem in a medical facility waste collection company a comparative analysis of guided local search simulated annealing and tabu search algorithm
topic guided local search
heterogenous fleet distance constrained capacitated vehicle routing problem (vrp) with time windows
tabu search
traveling salesman
simulated annealing
url https://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/article/view/5937
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