Evolutionary Optimization of Freight Transportation

The following thesis deals with optimization of freight transport planning. The goal is to minimize expenses connected to transportation, which emerge from travelled distance. The expenses can be heavily reduced, if the routes are correctly planned, especially when there is a large number of customers to be served. This thesis focuses on solving the problem by using the evolutional algorithms, that are optimization methods based on principles of evolution. Thesis concentrates on Heterogeneous Fixed Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem. Thesis introduces multiple evolutional algorithms and their results are compared. The best algorithm, evolutional strategy with local neighbourhood search, achieves similar, for certain tasks even better results, than other existing evolutional algorithms, created to solve given problem