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标题：A Rolling Horizon Heuristic with Optimality Guarantee for an On-Demand Vehicle Scheduling Problem
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作者：Johann Hartleb ; Marie Schmidt
期刊名称：OASIcs : OpenAccess Series in Informatics
电子版ISSN：2190-6807
出版年度：2020
卷号：85
页码：1-18
DOI：10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2020.15
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：We consider a basic vehicle scheduling problem that arises in the context of travel demand models: Given demanded vehicle trips, what is the minimal number of vehicles needed to fulfill the demand? In this paper, we model the vehicle scheduling problem as a network flow problem. Since instances arising in the context of travel demand models are often so big that the network flow model becomes intractable, we propose using a rolling horizon heuristic to split huge problem instances into smaller subproblems and solve them independently to optimality. By letting the horizons of the subproblems overlap, it is possible to look ahead to the demand of the next subproblem. We prove that composing the solutions of the subproblems yields an optimal solution to the whole problem if the overlap of the horizons is sufficiently large. Our experiments show that this approach is not only suitable for solving extremely large instances that are intractable as a whole, but it is also possible to decrease the solution time for large instances compared to a comprehensive approach.
关键词：Rolling Horizon Heuristic; Vehicle Scheduling; Network Flow