Research Article

The Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problem with Transshipment Nodes and Occasional Drivers: Formulation and Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Heuristic

Table 8

Comparison between Gurobi and the proposed ALNS for solving Set 2 instances of 2EVRP-TN-OD.

InstanceBKS of 2EVRPGurobiProposed ALNS
BestAverageCPU (s)

Set 2a
E-n22-k4-s6-17417.07329.64328.18328.2160−21.31−0.44
E-n22-k4-s8-14384.96316.96316.96316.9660−17.660.00
E-n22-k4-s9-19470.6372.77351.51351.6960−25.31−5.70
E-n22-k4-s10-14371.5277.09277.09277.0960−25.410.00
E-n22-k4-s11-12427.22367.62350.58350.5860−17.94−4.64
E-n22-k4-s12-16392.78311.88306.24306.5860−22.03−1.81
E-n33-k4-s1-9730.16606.01511.93513.07120−29.89−15.52
E-n33-k4-s2-13714.63763.04510.77513.83120−28.53−33.06
E-n33-k4-s3-17707.48512.48512.95120−27.56
E-n33-k4-s4-5778.74761.61555.73557.81120−28.64−27.03
E-n33-k4-s7-25756.85612.65536.78536.92120−29.08−12.38
E-n33-k4-s14-22779.05713.55573.87583.34120−26.34−19.58

Set 2b
E-n51-k5-s2-4-17-46530.76334.54350.99300−36.97
E-n51-k5-s2-17597.49389.54401.84300−34.80
E-n51-k5-s4-46530.76358.97365.06300−32.37
E-n51-k5-s6-12554.81347.34360.41300−37.39
E-n51-k5-s6-12-32-37531.92336.03341.66300−36.83
E-n51-k5-s11-19581.64398.27413.28300−31.53
E-n51-k5-s11-19-27-47527.63341.57363.55300−35.26
E-n51-k5-s27-47538.22349.85353.78300−35.00
E-n51-k5-s32-37552.28371.96373.12300−32.65

Set 2c
E-n51-k5-s2-4-17-46601.39485.8491.75300−19.22
E-n51-k5-s2-17601.39448.58452.99300−25.41
E-n51-k5-s4-46702.33534.21540.66300−23.94
E-n51-k5-s6-12567.42415.9421.48300−26.70
E-n51-k5-s6-12-32-37567.42463.34473.26300−18.34
E-n51-k5-s11-19617.42452.49461.79300−26.71
E-n51-k5-s11-19-27-47530.76421.11428300−20.66
E-n51-k5-s27-47530.76440.76444.43300−16.96
E-n51-k5-s32-37752.59670.74683.62300−10.88
Average423.10429.02−26.71