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Vehicle routing problem

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Topical headingVehicle routing problem
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Variant(s)VRP (Vehicle routing problem)
See alsoCombinatorial optimization
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Traveling salesman problem
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Found inWork cat.: Lim, Hyunpae. A genetic algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous vehicles from multiple depots, allowing multiple visits, 2007.
Wikipedia, accessed online Aug. 30, 2007 (The vehicle routing problem or VRP is a combinatorial optimization problem seeking to service a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles. Often the context is that of delivering goods located at a central depot to customers who have placed orders for such goods. Implicit is the goal of minimizing the cost of distributing the goods)
Toth, Paolo & Vigo, Daniele. The vehicle routing problem, 2002.
Fiala, F. Vehicle routing problem, 1978.
Laporte, Gilbert. The vehicle routing problem : an overview of exact and approximate algorithms, 1991.
Not found inMcGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 2003