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route: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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route1 CONSTRUCTVehicle routeDANTZIG & RAMSER · VRP

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Logistics & operations research

An optimised delivery circuit

In operations research a route is the ordered circuit a vehicle follows to serve a set of stops and return, and the vehicle routing problem asks for the set of such routes that serves every customer at least total cost subject to capacity and distance limits. Dantzig and Ramser's 1959 The truck dispatching problem first formalised the task as a generalisation of the travelling-salesman problem. The referent is an optimised tour over locations, scored by total distance, time, or cost, and it is a distinct construct from a climbing line or a network path despite the shared idea of a way from point to point.[1]

Unit
An ordered sequence of stops a vehicle serves on one circuit
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Scored by total distance, time, or cost, subject to vehicle capacity and route-length constraints

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References

  1. Dantzig, G. B., & Ramser, J. H. (1959). The truck dispatching problem. Management Science, 6(1), 80–91. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.6.1.80

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