Field services design and management of natural gas distribution networks: a class of vehicle routing problem with time windows approach
针对城市天然气网络日常物流活动的运营规划，提出一种基于带时间窗车辆路径问题的元启发式方法，并通过实际案例验证其有效性。
Service operations management of metropolitan gas networks at operational level implies the optimisation of decisions related to logistic activities, taking into account multi-objectives and operational constraints. This paper proposes a metaheuristic approach for the operational planning of the daily logistic activities based on vehicle routing with time window model. Experimental results for a real planning case in a gas distribution network demonstrate the approach effectiveness.