A new heuristic for the multi-depot vehicle routing problem that improves upon best-known solutions

SYNOPTIC ABSTRACTIn this paper, the multi-depot vehicle routing problem is reviewed and a new heuristic is presented. The heuristic is fast and simple and improves upon previous best-known solutions. In addition, we generate a variety of new test problems. The new heuristic is shown to perform well on these problems.

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