Vehicle routing problem

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The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a combinatorial optimization and integer programming 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?" The problem first appeared, as the truck dispatching problem, in a paper by George Dantzig and John Ramser in 1959, in which it was applied to petrol deliveries.

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