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In the real world, vehicles in a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) have to follow the roads: they can’t travel in a straight line from customer to customer. Most VRP research papers and demo’s happily ignore this implementation detail. As did I, in the past. Although using road distances (instead of air distances) doesn’t impact the […]