The emphasis on minimizing the logistics costs to decrease overall system costs has led the researchers to consider the interdependencies between the decisions of locating facilities and planning the routes from those facilities. The location-routing problems considering this issue are the subject of this thesis study. A two-level hierarchical distribution system is considered in which goods are delivered from the sources (plants) to the facilities (depots) and then from the facilities to the customers. The facilities are uncapacitated and operate within the shift times defined. The goods are to be delivered to the customers within their time windows by the vehicles that are capacitated.
Both a mathematical model and a genetic algorithm based heuristic solution approach are proposed for this problem. We discuss the problem specific issues integrated with the general framework of the genetic algorithm applications. The computational studies are realized on a number of test problems. The results indicate
that the genetic algorithm based heuristic gives satisfactory results compared with a sequential solution methodology.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607395/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 July 2006 |
| Creators | Ozgonenc, Hande |
| Contributors | Meral, Sedef |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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