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Journal of Production Research & Management

Heuristic Based Transportation Routing and Sizing

  1. NR Rajhans
  2. Ankita Mishra
  3. Amit Pingle

Abstract

Employee transportation is one of the most concerned issues and a part of HR policy in today’s work culture. Optimization of these routes and analysis of scenario needs to be done to leverage cost benefits for the organizations of today. Traditional studies focus on goods delivery and pickup, but employees are a totally different entity, which change the type of problem to be solved. As the entity to be considered changes, new constraints get added up to the existing solutions, and new study needs to be proposed, for getting better and reliable solutions. Though the problem can be considered as one of vehicle routing, but solving it imposes many restrictions on the predefined techniques. The heuristics need to be evaluated, and selection of the most optimal one is the challenge. Clustering of data is done using two approaches i.e., K-means and sweep heuristics. Results obtained were permuted and again tested to get the best and real time solution to the problem being considered.

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