The "vehicle routing problem" is a combinatorial optimization 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 travelling salesman problem.
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Conditional assignment of a node in or-tools
So, I am dealing with a problem where I have certain types of service nodes that should only be assigned if a condition is met. In my case that is the length of tour should be longer than x hours.
This is the general approach
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ORTools - Division by territories based on multiple vehicles in multiple days
The problem:
Multiple vehicles in multiple days meeting the location's time windows plan - obtaining territories.
Let's suppose there's a list of locations, each with specified time windows per day in a time frame of 4 to 8 weeks. Each location has…

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OR-Tools: Unused Vehicles Occupying Depot Capacity in VRPTW with Resource Constraints
I'm testing VRPTW with Resource Constraints example from official website.
Everything is fine except for 1 thing:
If I set too many vehicles in data model and that will cause some unused vehicles and unused routes. Unused vehicles will still occupy…

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google ortools traveling salesman visit in ordered sets
I am using the google's ortools library in python to find an optimal path between a set of points. The set of points is broken up into subsets. For example, set A may contain 10 points, set B contains 6 points, set C contains 48 points. The sets…

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VRP with different vehicle types using or-tools
I'm trying to optimize the best routes VRP with OR-Tools. I couldn't find the right function in the documentation.
CASE: Some customers only accept pickup trucks, some accept only trucks, some accept both trucks, pickup, and vans. There's a single…

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What is default value of Tabu list in google or-tools? Can I change it for fine tuning?
I want to fine-tune parameters of tabu search such as tabu list in google or-tools, Can anyone suggest this?

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OR-Tools Vehicle Routing with Multiple Trips, Multiple Pickup and limited capacity
I am trying to solve a routing problem as follows:
We have many 'tasks' and each task contains many items to be collected by workers
items can appear in multiple tasks (e.g. item 1 can be in both task A and B)
We already have the distance matrix of…

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OR-tools CVRP with a distance constraint not working
I am using the OR-tools code to optimize bus routes with distance and capacity constraints. This is the output that I got:
Route for vehicle 0:
Stop 0 Students(2) -> Stop 3 Students(37) -> Stop 5 Students(37)
Duration of the route: 48m
Number of…

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Google OR-tools VRP - Pickup/Dropoff at same node
I'm currently using Python and the Google-Or-Tools to solve an VRP problem, that I am not sure how exactly to model. (If someone has a solution with another library/tool, absolutely interested as well)
Problem Statement:
I have basically the…

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Google-OR VRP w/ TW minimum staying time at location
im working with the google-OR tools, trying to set up a VRP with a time window and demands constraint.
for this to work, I want a vehicle to go to location A, stay there for a specified amount of time, and then move on to the next location. I have a…

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OR-Tools CVRP with Multiple Trips
I'm trying to use OR-Tools' Routing Solver to solve a Multi Trip Capacitated VRP. What I need is
one depot, route starts and ends here.
one unloading location (different from the depot)
set time window and demand for each node
So the vehicles…

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How to use for loop inside a capacitated vehicle routing problem (Google OR tools)
I want to find the shortest route distance and vehicle load carrying capacity a vehicle can have. It is a capacitated vehicle routing problem (Google OR tools). I want to use a for- loop in between the code so that it gives the…

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OR-tools routing optimization node compatibility
I am trying to solve a capacitated routing problem where I have a set of nodes which require different amounts and different types of items.
In addition I want to allow node drops, because all nodes with one type of item might still exceed the…

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Vehicle Routing Problem where distance constraint will depend on first visited node
I am trying to solve the vehicle routing problem for cabs to pick-up employees and drop them off at the office using OR-Tools.
One of the requirement is that no employee should spend more them 'x' km off the route, i.e. if x = 10 km and employee A…

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OR-Tools for VRP with cumulative cost minimization
I am using OR tools to solve VRP without any constraints. Here is the source code:
def create_data_model():
"""Stores the data for the problem."""
data = {}
data['distance_matrix'] = [
[0, 20079, 2613, 8005, 19277, 12468,…

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