Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of decision problems having an important role in transportation and distribution activity in the logistic management. The VRP deals with determining vehicle routes that minimizes total distance by satisfying the following constraints: (1) each route starts and ends at the depot, (2) each vehicle serves only one route, (3) each costumer is served by one route, (4) all customers must be served, and (5) total load for each route does not exceed the vehicle capacity. In literature, this definition is the definition for the basic or classical VRP. This paper discusses an extension of the basic VRP including the following characteristics: (1)multiple trips (MT), (2) time windows (TW), and (3) simultaneous pickup-delivery (SPD). A solution method based on genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed to solve the VRP discussed in this papaer. The proposed GA is examined using some hypothetical instances.
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