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The vehicle routing problem occurs in many service systems such as delivery, customer pick-up, repair and maintenance. A fleet of vehicles, each with fixed capacity, starts at a common depot and returns to the depot after visiting locations where service is demanded. The objective is to minimize the total distance of all the routes.

In general, it takes much longer to find the best routes as the number of locations grow. Large versions of this model may have to be tackled using some form of heuristics.

In this particular example, we are delivering one product to seven cities with the depot at city 1.