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Measuring Backtracking on Delivery Routes through Community Detection

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Noszek, Joseph Robert
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Winkenbach, Matthias
Sheffi, Yossi
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Abstract
In logistics, backtracking is the act of a route returning to an area that it has already visited. Despite backtracking’s clear potential to be a source of inefficiency and driver frustration, there is little existing research on backtracking in transportation. We set out to devise a method to measure backtracking that is consistently scalable and transferable to different route settings. Our measurement method utilizes community detection, a group of machine learning algorithms for clustering nodes within graphs, based on edge structure and weight. We then investigate the ability of backtracking, as measured by our community detection-based method, to predict suboptimality of Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (ATSP) solutions. We find that backtracking does demonstrate viability as a predictor of suboptimality, particularly when it utilizes the Louvain algorithm or the Leiden algorithm for community detection. We also investigate the relationship between backtracking and suboptimality when adjusting our measurement process and when considering the additional variables of the number of customers and the number of backtracking instances. After these adjustments, we observe continued and increased viability as a predictor of suboptimality.
Date issued
2022-05
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144575
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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