Research on VRP of Waste Household Appliances for Recycling

Abstract

In recent years, China has entered the peak of obsolescence of waste household appliances again with their faster upgrading and shorter life. The recycling of waste household appliances in reverse logistics will become a new area of China federation of logistics in the future. Transportation is an important part in the recycling activities. It is the key to reduce logistics costs that how to arrange efficiently for vehicles to recycle waste household appliances effectively and choose route reasonably. We establish a definite model of vehicle routing optimization of waste household appliances based on cost and apply the ant colony algorithm to solve the model in this paper. As the convergence speed of the ant colony algorithm is slow and it is easy to fall into local optimal solution, we improve the algorithm. Finally, this paper verifies the validity of the algorithm by an example.