Suppose you have a fleet of 5 drivers and 50 delivery stops. You want each driver to have a fair share of work — not one driver working 10 hours while another finishes in 2. Until now, you could use min-max to minimize the longest route. But min-max only cares about the maximum — it […]
When optimizing delivery routes, not all time spent at a stop is the same. Over the years, we’ve added several timing parameters to model real-world scenarios more accurately. With our latest addition, setup_time, we now cover another common case: fixed overhead when arriving at a location. The Timeline at a Stop Let me walk through […]
For a decade, I’ve wanted to build a simple game that shows why the Traveling Salesman Problem is fun to work on. Something I could pull up at a party when someone asks “so what does your company actually do?” Something my kids could play and understand why dad stares at vehicle routing problems all […]
