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A Parallel Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem

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The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a dicult and well-studied combinatorial optimization problem. We develop a parallel algorithm for the VRP that combines a heuristic local search improvement procedure with integer programming. We run our parallel algorithm with as many as 129 processors and are able to quickly nd high-quality solutions to standard benchmark problems. We assess the impact of parallelism by analyzing our procedure's performance under a number of dierent scenarios.

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Groer, Christopher S, Golden, Bruce, Edward, Wasil. 2011-01-01. A Parallel Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem. https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.1100.0402

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