Nature Inspired Optimisation for Delivery Problems

This book explains classic routing and transportation problems and solutions,before offeringinsights based on successful real-world solutions. The chapters in Part I introduce and explain the traveling salesperson problem (TSP), vehicle routing problems (VRPs), and multi-objective problems, with an emphasis on heuristic approaches and software engineeringaspects. In turn, Part II demonstrateshow to exploit geospatial data, routing algorithms, and visualization.In Part III, the above techniques and insights are combined inreal-world success storiesfromdomains such as food delivery in rural areas, postal delivery, workforce routing, and urban logistics. The bookoffers a valuablesupportingtext for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses and projects in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, and Mathematics.It is accompanied bya repository of source code, allowing readersto try outthe algorithms and techniquesdiscussed.