国内每年新車约销售四十幾萬輛,如何將新車由集保場(或製造廠)直接地配送到各經銷商交車中心或銷售據點為一重要課題。本研究僅針對負責拖運新車之專業汽車運送業加以探討,經初步了解,汽車運送業者多以拖車及專用板架進行新車之配送作業,並分別依新車配送路線規劃、新車裝載規劃、以及拖車路線規劃三階段進行新車之配送規劃,而本研究僅針對新車配送路線規劃階段之新車配送路線規劃問題加以探討。經初步了解,進行新車之配送路線規劃時,除需考量途程因素外,尚需考量迄點不定與分割載運因素,故此問題實較一般車輛路線問題複雜,而本研究則先依問題特性直接構建一數學模式(稱多元商品網路設計模式),據以求解此問題,並依先分區再排路線之啓發法,研提一啓發模式(稱區位基礎啓發模式),以利於求解大型新車配送路線規劃問題。經求解分析及實例運算結果顯示,此兩個模式之運算績效頗佳,應可提供後續研究之依循或相關業者之參考。
More than 400,000 new automobiles are sold in Taiwan every year. Efficiently distributing new automobiles from manufacturing centers to dealers is an important problem faced by managers. The paper addresses the New Automobiles Distribution Routing Problem (NADRP) in auto-carriers' delivery of new automobiles to dealers. In fact, the NADRP is a variant of the Vehicles Routing Problem (VRP) which belongs to a variant of NP-hard. In the paper, a mathematical programming model is built and we develop a location-based heuristic model to solve the NADRP. The computational results of case study have shown that the models can efficiently solve the NADRP.