This
program models and solves the vehicle routing problem for several
vehicles visiting several delivery sites. A primary goal is
to reduce the total distance required to serve all the sites.
The vehicles may have several resources, such as capacity,
weight or space. Deliveries consume resources. One goal is
to serve all the delivery sites without exceeding the resources
available. The delivery sites may have time windows. A goal
is to arrive at the site before the early delivery time and
leave after the late delivery time. The various goals are related
through numeric penalties. The goal of the optimization is
to minimize the sum of the weighted goal violations. Use the
latest version of the Optimal Sequencing add-in with this Routing
add-in.
The add-in uses linear distances, Euclidean
distances or user supplied measure distances. An output option
is to represent the route on Google Earth Maps.
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