Minimising number of vehicles used

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related post: your proposal 1 seems doing the same thing as fixed cost, and your proposal 2 seems doing what Stefan was suggesting in the post.

Reducing number of vehicles

Hello! I’m trying to edit the algorithmConfig.xml to get a lower number of vehicles in the solution of VRPTW. I started from the xml configurations related to the VRPTW problem available in jsprit github webpage. I’m working on Solomon istances and I used the SolomonReader class. I need to reduce the number of used vehicles, especially in RC instances. My idea was to introduce a FixedCost for each vehicle directly from the constructor of SolomonReader, public SolomonReader(VehicleRoutingProble…