Selected Resources on Vehicle Routing Optimization

Conferences

  • Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization within EURO, VeRoLog
  • The Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis, TRISTAN

Software

  • Poject Open Source Routing Machine: Modern C++ routing engine for shortest paths in road networks.

  • Or-Tools Routing Library. V. Furnon and L. Perron, Google.

  • pyVRP N. A. Wouda, L. Lan, and W. Kool, “PyVRP: a high-performance VRP solver package,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 943–955, 2024

  • HGS A modern implementation of the Hybrid Genetic Search for the CVRP. T. Vidal. 2022 based on:

    • T. Vidal, T. G. Crainic, M. Gendreau, N. Lahrichi, and W. Rei, “A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Multidepot and Periodic Vehicle Routing Problems,” Operations Research, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 611–624, 2012, Accessed: Feb. 28, 2025.

    • T. Vidal, “Hybrid genetic search for the CVRP: Open-source implementation and SWAP* neighborhood,” Computers & Operations Research, vol. 140, 2022, Accessed: Feb. 28, 2025.

  • MDM-HGS-CVRP M. Maia, 2024,

  • HybridCVRP, M. Simensen, 2024.

  • VRPSolverEasy. N. Errami, E. Queiroga, R. Sadykov, and E. Uchoa, “VRPSolverEasy: A Python Library for the Exact Solution of a Rich Vehicle Routing Problem,” INFORMS Journal on Computing, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 956–965, 2024, Accessed: Apr. 8, 2025.

  • Vehicle Routing Open-source Optimization Machine, VROOM, Verso. J. Coupey, J.-M. Nicod, and C. Varnier, Besançon, France, 2024

  • Jsprit, GraphHopper, 2025

  • OptaPlanner. G. De Smet and open source contributors, 2025

Computational Challenges