Optimization of forest vehicle routing using reactive tabu search metaheuristic

Optimizing a Transportation System Using Metaheuristics Approaches (EGD/GA/ACO): A Forest Vehicle Routing Case Study

“…The process of getting forest goods from suppliers to consumers is known as the distribution of forest products. Transportation expenses usually account for 10% -20% of the overall cost of items sold according to [2].…”

“…The first point is that the forest sector accounts for a considerable share of exports from nations like Chile, Canada, Sweden, Finland, and New Zealand, according to [2]. At almost $26 billion in 2011, Canada ranked as the world's top exporter of forest products, according to Natural Resources Canada.…”

“…Thus, this industry ranks second in terms of exports, behind the oil and gas industry. The second point is that a large portion of the total operating costs of a forest may be attributed to transportation [2]. Thirdly, for the forest industry to remain competitive, it must be guaranteed to retain or increase the efficacy of all of its activities [2].…”

“…The second point is that a large portion of the total operating costs of a forest may be attributed to transportation [2]. Thirdly, for the forest industry to remain competitive, it must be guaranteed to retain or increase the efficacy of all of its activities [2]. In the last 20 years, metaheuristics have proven particularly effective in solving the vehicle routing problem.…”

Addressing Examination Timetabling Problem Using a Partial Exams Approach in Constructive and Improvement

“…The motivation for using GD in the improvement phase is due to its consistently good performance in addressing different scheduling problems. These include job shop scheduling [43], university timetabling problems [13,16,24,44], vehicle routing problem [45], feature selection problem [46,47] dynamic facility layout problem [48] and patient-admission problem [21]. In addition to having the ability to avoid local optima, GD has only one parameter to be tuned.…”