COMPUTER-AIDED ALGORITHMIC DESIGN IN THE VEHICLE ROUTING DOMAIN

This paper advocates computer-aided algorithmic design as a means to enhance the development of expertise in the vehicle routing domain. The authors present a computer system, called ALTO, that supports the development of routing algorithms for transportation vehicles. ALTO provides a general framework modelling generic problem-solving procedures for vehicle routing problems. Within this general framework, specific procedures can be created via an instantiation process controlled by the user. In this way, many different heuristic strategies can be quickly designed and tested on complex problems for which no efficient algorithms are currently known.

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• Authors:
  • Potvin, J-Y
  • Lapalme, G
  • ROUSSEAU, J-M
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 53-62
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Computer programs; Public transit; Routing; Transit vehicle operations; User interfaces (Computer science)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interactive computing
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00490254
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 1989 12:00AM