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PHP Clarke and Wright Algorithm: Solve a truck routing problem with Clarke & Wright

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This class can solve a truck routing problem with the Clarke and Wright algorithm.

It attempts to solve the problem of determining the routes of a given number of trucks with different weight and volume capacity will be dispatching deliveries to a certain number of clients distributed geographically within certain time windows.

The class takes as parameters the nodes of positions of each client, the demands of each client, a matrix of distance between nodes and the capacity of each truck.

It computes the route for each truck, as well the time and distance to drive to each customer, and the volume and weight to transport.

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July 2013
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The problem of a distribution business that needs to deliver packages to multiple customers in different locations is classic.

This class provides an optimized solution to calculate routes of trucks to deliver packages.

Manuel Lemos
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This is a Clarke & Wright Savings algorithm adapted for asymmetric distance (or cost) matrix and under a simple time window scenario. It was created as part for the IN4704 at the University of Chile. The scenario is described as N trucks with different weight and volume capacity have to dispatch to M different clients geographically distributed across town. Those clients can be of 4 types N,M,S and C, each client type has a time window in which it can be served and a specific service time. The time between different nodes is calculated considering an average of 30km/h driving speed for the trucks. The Clarke and Wright algorithm is pretty simple and standard. The truck assignment method is more complex and proceeds as follows: 1) For each route we create a list of trucks capable of transporting the demand. 2) If a route has a possible truck that isn’t already in use by another route, it is assigned to it. 3) If there is no free truck for the route a pseudo-matrix of 1 and 0 is created where the rows are the trucks and the columns are the routes. A 1 is assigned if the route and truck can be matched. 4) Then we simulate a pivoting process on the columns of the matrix until a strictly positive diagonal is formed, giving a solution for the problem. (This pivoting is done by deleting and recreating rows and columns of the matrix, due to the mathematical restrictions of php. Also a custom Matrix class is created for simplicity). Notice that no client node can be duplicate. we give an example of how to correct this in data.php. It was programmed in php for speed and simplicity of writing and reading, not calculating optimality. The code is not intended to be perfect in any terms, just the simplest of approach to the heuristic proposed for the problem by Clarke & Wright (1964) and adapted to asymmetric scenario by Paessens (1988). Programmed by B. Vatter Model adapted by A Martinez, P. Oyarzun, B. Vatter Special thanks to Ron Cairns for testing the class and noticing the missing files. Special thanks to Ron Cairn use, copy, further develop and hopefuly share again :)

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  Accessible without login Plain text file clientes.csv Data client data
  Accessible without login Plain text file data.php Aux. data load
  Accessible without login Plain text file distance1.csv Data distance matrix part 1
  Accessible without login Plain text file distance2.csv Data distance matrix part 2
  Plain text file matrix.php Class auxiliary class
  Plain text file matrixcw.php Class main class
  Accessible without login Plain text file matrixpararun.php Example parametric run of the class
  Accessible without login Plain text file matrixrun.php Example normal run of the class
  Accessible without login Plain text file readme.txt Doc. read before executing
  Accessible without login Plain text file trucks.csv Data truck data
  Accessible without login Plain text file trucksn.csv Data trucks data
  Accessible without login Plain text file trucksn.php Data data of the trucks

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