Simulation of the Homogeneous Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem – A Case Study

ABSTRACT: Logistics industry is thriving more than ever, with increased workload due to the pandemic crisis. The last mile leg of the logistics is associated with the highest cost and is the least efficient process in the logistics process chain. A wide verity of solutions have been proposed and implemented to improve the last mile logistics. VRP (Vehicle Routing Problem) is a popular optimization algorithm applied to the last mile problem. One kind of the VRP is the Capacitated VRP (CVRP). The purpose of this paper is to apply and simulate a homogenous CVRP to a problem occurring in Buraydah City in Saudi Arabia. Like all developing countries, Saudi Arabia focuses in logistics and consider it to be one of the main components of gross domestic product (GDP) revenue stream.

Advisor: Dr. Vittaldas Prabhu

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Work Title Simulation of the Homogeneous Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem – A Case Study
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  1. Abdullah Aldhuhayyan
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  1. CVRP
  2. Simulation
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  1. I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Vittaldas Prabhu for all support and guidance during the course of this paper. Whom without I would not be able to come this far in my research.
  2. I would like to thank Dr. Soundar Kumara for taking the time to review this paper and for giving valuable comments.
  3. I would like to thank Mr. Ali for his cooperation and providing the data.
Publication Date 2021
Deposited April 07, 2021

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