Robust Bi-objective shortest path problem in real road networks

Abstract

Road journeys are one of our most frequent daily tasks. Despite we need them, these trips have some associated costs: time, money, pollution, etc. One of the usual ways of modeling the road network is as a graph. The shortest path problem consists in finding the path in a graph that minimizes a certain cost function. However, in real world applications, more than one objective must be optimized simultaneously (e.g. time and pollution) and the data used in the optimization is not precise: it contains errors. In this paper we propose a new mathematical model for the robust bi-objective shortest path problem. In addition, some empirical studies are included to illustrate the utility of our formulation.