The School Bus and the Orienteering Problem
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Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are very popular mainly because of their interesting combinatorial properties and applications to various industries. Informally, the problem is to provide a service to a set of customers using a fleet of vehicles so as to minimize the ‘transportation costs’ without loosing ‘customer satisfaction’. Many variations of the problem have been formulated corresponding to different definitions of ‘transportation costs’ and ‘customer satisfaction’. These variations have been well studied in the fields of theoretical computer science and operations research, and many of them have been shown to be strongly NP hard. Two such variations are defined below:
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