VEHICLE ROUTING FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM USING GENETIC ALGORITHM.

This article presents vehicle routing for Public Distribution System (PDS) of a district in Tamil Nadu, India. We have proposed a Genetic Algorithm (GA) method to minimise the cost, i.e., the distance travelled by the vehicles from the depot to various ration shops. Let there be 'm' distribution poi...

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Published in:	ICFAI Journal of Governance & Public Policy Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 47 - 60
Main Authors:	Kanchana, D., Manivannan, L., Premkumar, N. B.
Format:	Article
Published:	IUP Publications Mar2008
Subjects:	Physical distribution of goods Genetic algorithms Cooperative societies Business logistics Tamil Nadu (India) India
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