Solving the Asymmmetric Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows by Branch-and-Cut

Many optimization problems have several equivalent mathematical models. It is often not apparent which of these models is most suitable for practical computation, in particular, when a certain application with a specific range of instance sizes is in focus. Our paper addresses the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem with time windows (ATSP-TW) from such a point of view. The real-world application we aim at is the control of a stacker crane in a warehouse. We have implemented codes based on three alternative integer programming formulations of the ATSP-TW and more than ten heuristics. Computational results for real-world instances with up to 233 nodes are reported, showing that a new model presented in a companion paper outperforms the other two models we considered - at least for our special application - and that the heuristics provide acceptable solutions

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