Heuristic algorithm based on reduce and optimize approach for a selective and periodic inventory routing problem in a waste vegetable oil collection environment

This paper develops a general heuristic algorithm to solve the selective and periodic inventory routing problem (SPIRP) in a waste vegetable oil collection environment. In the past, the SPIRP has been formulated and solved via a valid set of inequalities and an adaptive large-neighborhood search algorithm. The proposed algorithm is based on a reduce and optimize approach (ROA) and a new inequality. The ROA always solves the problem using a small...