Iranian Institute of Industrial Engineering Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering 1735-8272 10 2 2017 07 06 A PFIH-Based Heuristic for Green Routing Problem with Hard Time Windows 75 86 43409 EN Mahdi Alinaghian Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology Zahra Kaviani Dezaki Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology Journal Article 2016 08 26 Transportation sector generates a considerable part of each nation's gross domestic product and considered among the largest consumers of oil products in the world. This paper proposes a heuristic method for the vehicle routing problem with hard time windows while incorporating the costs of fuel, driver, and vehicle. The proposed heuristic uses a novel speed optimization algorithm to reach its objectives. Performance of the proposed algorithm is validated by comparing its results with the results of the exact method and differential evaluation algorithm for small-scale problems. For large-scale problems, the results of the proposed algorithm are compared with those obtained from the differential evaluation algorithm. Overall, results indicate the good performance of the proposed heuristic algorithm. https://www.jise.ir/article_43409_fa5e2d8f160a9160ba19cf589cdc017b.pdf