Vehicle Routing Planning Based on the Ant Colony Algorithm for Book Distribution
Xing Wang · Journal of Hubei University of Technology · 2011
Taking the vehicle routing problem of book distribution center as the research object and considering the characteristics of the book distribution and the limited capacity of the distribution vehicles,a vehicle path planning model based on less-than-truck-load transport strategy is established in this paper.In view of the deficiency of traditional research on vehicle routing problem,the distribution distance is redefined by GPS vehicle navigation system.An ant colony algorithm is developed and used to improve the model.The optimization result demonstrated in an instance proves the availability of the model and the algorithm.