Introduction

This project is about solving Vehicle Routing Problem which is common task in transportation planning and logistics.

Vehicle Routing Problem

From wiki:

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a combinatorial optimization and integer programming problem which asks "What is the optimal set of routes for a fleet of vehicles to traverse in order to deliver to a given set of customers?". It generalises the well-known travelling salesman problem (TSP).

Determining the optimal solution to VRP is NP-hard, so the size of problems that can be solved, optimally, using mathematical programming or combinatorial optimization may be limited. Therefore, commercial solvers tend to use heuristics due to the size and frequency of real world VRPs they need to solve.

Design

Although performance is constantly in focus, a main idea behind projects' design is extensibility: the project aims to support a very wide range of VRP variations known as Rich VRP. This is achieved through various extension points: custom constraints, objective functions, acceptance criteria, etc.