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3157. The Vehicle Routing Problem With Remote Drivers
Invited abstract in session WB-64: Vehicle Routing Problems With Time Windows, stream VeRoLog - Vehicle Routing and Logistics.
Wednesday, 10:30-12:00Room: S16 (building: 101)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Pedro Munari
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| Production Engineering Department, Federal University of Sao Carlos | |
| 2. | Nils Boysen
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| Lehrstuhl für ABWL/ Operations Management, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Abstract
Remote driving is a type of teleoperation that allows a human operator to control a vehicle without direct physical access, typically through wireless communication technologies. Recent advances in 5G wireless cellular networks, sensor technology, high-quality cameras, and machine learning have made remote vehicle operation more feasible and successful for a wider range of applications, both on public roads and inside facilities such as warehouses and factories. The main advantage is that remote drivers do not have to be idle during service operations at customers. Instead, they can switch to other vehicles, which opens up the possibility of operating a fleet more efficiently. In this talk, we introduce the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Remote Drivers (VRPTWRD), which extends the traditional vehicle routing problem to include the specificities of remote driving. We model different versions of the VRPTWRD as mixed-integer programming problems, and use Benders decomposition to derive effective branch-and-Benders-cut approaches. Our results indicate that remote driving can effectively reduce the workforce needed to operate a fleet of vehicles.
Keywords
- Logistics
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Programming, Integer
Status: accepted
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