Simulated Annealing with Restart Strategy for the Path Cover Problem with Time Windows

This research presents a variant of the vehicle routing problem known as the path cover problem with time windows (PCPTW), in which each vehicle starts with a particular customer and finishes its route at another customer. The vehicles serve each customer within the customer’s time windows. PCPTW is motivated by a practical strategy for companies to reduce operational cost by hiring freelance workers, thus allowing workers to directly service...