Vehicle Routing Problem Definition
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a classic optimization problem that has been studied extensively in the operations research community. Given a set of customers with demand, locations, and time windows, the VRP seeks to find the shortest route that visits each customer exactly once and returns to the depot. The VRP is NP-hard, meaning that it is computationally difficult to find an optimal solution. However, there are many heuristic and metaheuristic algorithms that can provide good solutions for moderate sized problems in reasonable time.
