Are there any benchmark instances for VRP with charging stations? I also have various delivery points with charging stations in the city(Multiple Vehicles). How can I compare my formulation?
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3$\begingroup$ You might check vrp-rep.org $\endgroup$ – Albert Schrotenboer Mar 29 at 17:28
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1$\begingroup$ Would you see this article which published in informs? $\endgroup$ – A.Omidi Mar 29 at 20:34
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E-VRP-NL has been used in The electric vehicle routing problem with capacitated charging stations. Also authors in the paper mentioned by A.Omidi design two new sets of benchmark instances for the E-VRPTW problem. A set of 56 large instances, each with 100 customers and 21 recharging stations, and a set of 36 small instances with 5, 10, and 15 customers per instance. All instances are created based on the benchmark instances for the VRPTW proposed by Solomon (1987).
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$\begingroup$ Even if I distribute the customer among other EVs, I am still not sure how I am going to compare my result (This is the first time I am using dataset previously I use to create my own examples so I am not aware how can I compare my solution? like time taken, objection function value, etc and also I am using IBM drop solve cloud solver to solve my model) $\endgroup$ – ooo Mar 29 at 21:38
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$\begingroup$ You are right, they considered a single-vehicle problem but you can still compare your solution to the benchmark solutions if your model is working for multiple vehicles by simply assuming a single vehicle in the system. If there is no benchmark for your specific problem (in general researchers compare a modified version of their work with some existing benchmark results in the literature), you may generate a set of those problems with all the specifications that you consider for your model. $\endgroup$ – Oguz Toragay Mar 29 at 22:07
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$\begingroup$ There is another vrp-rep.org/datasets/item/2018-0004.html, but the one you shared has the same name in the zip folder files and name used in paper result, but the one I found has different names used in the paper and zip folder which I can't understand. $\endgroup$ – ooo Mar 30 at 4:20
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$\begingroup$ I am testing the dataset you suggested but can't replicate the results, I have asked a question here: or.stackexchange.com/questions/3818/… can you take a look at it. $\endgroup$ – ooo Apr 3 at 16:39
