A Time-Dependent No-Overlap Constraint: Application to Delivery Problems
Résumé
The Time-Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem (TDTSP)
is the extended version of the TSP where arc costs depend on the time
when the arc is traveled. When we consider urban deliveries, travel times
vary considerably during the day and optimizing a delivery tour comes
down to solving an instance of the TDTSP. In this paper we present
a global constraint, extended from the no-overlap constraint, that integrates
time-dependent transition costs and we compare the performance
of CP models for the TDTSP with and without the new constraint.