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Vehicle routing comprises a variety of fleet disposition problems. We compare the performance of a homogeneous fleet of vehicles with the performance of a mixed (or heterogeneous) fleet of vehicles consisting of big but slow trucks and small but fast vans. We consider a scenario with operation starting time synchronization, e.g., a scenario in which two vehicles have to be assigned to a customer location and both selected vehicles must start their unloading operations at the same time. Within computational simulation experiments, we demonstrate that the fuel consumption as well as the makespan benefit from the deployment of a mixed fleet.
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Schönberger, J., Kopfer, H. (2016). Heterogeneity of Velocity in Vehicle Routing—Insights from Initial Experiments. In: Kotzab, H., Pannek, J., Thoben, KD. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23512-7_17
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