Workload equity in multiperiod vehicle routing problems
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Abstract
Abstract An equitable distribution of workload is essential when deploying vehicle routing solutions in practice. For this reason, previous studies have formulated vehicle routing problems with workload‐balance objectives or constraints, leading to trade‐off solutions between routing costs and workload equity. These methods consider a single planning period; however, in practice, equity is often sought over several days. In this work, we show that workload equity over multiple periods can be achieved without impact on transportation costs when the planning horizon is sufficiently large. This is demonstrated in the context of a generic multiperiod vehicle routing problem, using a simple two‐phase method. In the first phase, solutions of minimal distance are produced for each period. Next, the resulting routes are allocated to drivers to obtain equitable workloads over the planning horizon. We conducted extensive numerical experiments to measure the performance of the proposed approach and the level of workload equity achieved for different planning‐horizon lengths. For horizons of five days or more, we observed that quasi‐optimal workload equity and optimal routing costs can be jointly achievable.
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