Sentence examples for a hard time window from inspiring English sources

In real cases each customer has a tighter preferable time window and product delivery during mentioned time will have more customer satisfaction, so in this study customer satisfaction time window (TWS) is considered inside of a hard time window (HTW).

Note: In this paper, we consider one of the time variants where the time constraint is 'soft', that is, it can be violated because of the model constraints; in other words, the classical vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is an extension of the VRP where the service at each customer must take place within a given time interval (hard time window).

Service of both request types is subject to hard time window constraints.

The results show that it is possible to transfer the last-minute evacuees during the Black Saturday bushfires under the hard time window constraint.

The transportation requests are handled by a trucking company which operates several depots and a fleet of homogeneous trucks that must be routed and scheduled to minimize the total truck operating time under hard time window constraints imposed by the customers and terminals.

Hard time window for node i (i ∈ N).

Customers can not be visited after their hard time window.

Subsequently, soft time window randomly selected within produced hard time window.

One of the extensions of VRP is VRP with hard time window (VRPHTW).

[EET i, ELT i ]: Hard time window for customer i (seconds).

According to this problem, trucks should wait at customer nodes until the hard time window is reached in case of earlier arrival.