Micro-Ferry Scheduling Problem with Time Windows

Reference

M. Burger, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Micro-Ferry Scheduling Problem with Time Windows," Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montréal, Canada, pp. 3998-4003, June 2012.

Abstract

We propose a method to solve scheduling problems taking into account energy-efficiency and variable speeds. We focus on a scheduling problem for autonomous micro-ferries, where the task of assigning transportation requests to specific micro-ferries and determining the order of handling them is done centrally. The method is based on the travelling salesman problem and vehicle routing problem with time-windows, but differs in the inclusion of constraints on the energy-consumption and an increased flexibility in travel times, which are both influenced by varying the speed of the micro-ferries. This results in a mixed-integer non-linear programming problem, which can be transformed into a mixed-integer linear programming problem by using an approximation of the speed variables.

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{BurDeS:12-015,
author={M. Burger and B. {D}e Schutter and J. Hellendoorn},
title={Micro-Ferry Scheduling Problem with Time Windows},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference},
address={Montr\'eal, Canada},
pages={3998--4003},
month=jun,
year={2012}
}

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