Dataset: Test Instances for Queue constrained packing: a vehicle ferry case study

Research data for the paper: Christopher Bayliss, Christine S.M. Currie, Julia A. Bennell, Antonio Martinez-Sykora, 'Queue-constrained packing: A vehicle ferry case study' in European Journal of Operational Research. Contains a text file describing the data and two zipped directories. The directory "testInstances_QueueConstrainedPacking" contains ferry dimensions, vehicle mixes, vehicle dimensions, vehicle type quantities, yard queue width information for each of the 100 test instance in the three classes of instances. The input values and their names are specified in each file, that is they are self contained. The data is organised with a single file for each individual instance. The directory "bestMetaheuristicParameters" contains full details of the metaheuristic parameters that worked best for each individual test instance. This directory contains two files, one corresponding to the metaheuristic that utilised the SOPE packing encoder, and one corresponding to the metaheuristic that utilised the GPE packing encoder.