Solving a Shareable-Setup Time Prize Collection VRP Applied to an Electrical Maintenance Sector
摘要
This paper is inspired by a real-world scenario found in the maintenance sector of an electricity distribution company. In this problem, a set of tasks (clients) must be executed by a set of maintenance teams. There is not enough time capacity to visit all clients in the specified period, so a subset of tasks must be chosen to be performed. To address this problem, this paper derives a variation of the well-known Prize-collecting Vehicle Routing Problem and proposes two solving approaches: a MILP formulation and an Iterated Local Search (ILS) algorithm. As presented in our results, the ILS was able to find suitable solutions in an acceptable running time.