This article describes how we calculate and prepare travel time matrices to solve time dependent vehicle routing problems. Let me first explain what a typical vehicle routing problem is: Given a vehicle fleet and a number of customers, find the optimal set of vehicle routes to serve all customers and to minimize total transportation costs, […]

Load balancing in the context of vehicle routing problems is a way to achieve a more evenly distribution of jobs or activities over your drivers’ routes. There are a number of reasons to balance load. The most obvious ones are resource utilization and fairness. Why do we need a blog post for this? Why aren’t […]

We had the opportunity to improve two critical components of our Directions API. The Matrix API is now up to 20 times faster for large matrices, which makes our Route Optimization API also significantly faster as it uses the Matrix API under the hood. You can find more details in our recent blog post. The […]

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