An interdisciplinary method for a generic vehicle routing problem decision support system

Bernat Gacias (1) , Julien Cegarra (2) , Pierre Lopez (1)

1 LAAS-MOGISA
2 CLLE-LTC - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

In this paper, we propose an interdisciplinary method for the logistics of transportation. It focuses on the design of a generic architecture for the vehicle routing problem (VRP). We highlight that human factors and dynamics aspects are generally ignored in the classical approaches to solve the vehicle routing problem. In our study, a link is done between methods of operations research (specific methods to solve vehicle routing problems and constraint programming techniques) and a work domain analysis technique coming from cognitive ergonomics. The proposed architecture allows to consider and to process the constraints identified by the work domain analysis during the problem resolution. It is also well adapted to the consideration of the Human as a main actor in the decision-making process.

Domaines: Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]; Psychologie

Bernat Gacias, Julien Cegarra, Pierre Lopez. An interdisciplinary method for a generic vehicle routing problem decision support system. International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM 2009), May 2009, Montréal, Canada. pp.CD-Rom Session 9A. ⟨hal-00370060⟩