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 '20 at 17:28
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1$\begingroup$ Would you see this article which published in informs? $\endgroup$ – A.Omidi Mar 29 '20 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).
answered Mar 29 '20 at 21:09
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$\begingroup$ I think this dataset uses only a single-vehicle. $\endgroup$ – ooo Mar 29 '20 at 21:35
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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 '20 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 '20 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 '20 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 '20 at 16:39
