Routing a Heterogeneous Fleet of Vehicles

Question

I know it is possible to solve a VRP problem using OptaPlanner. I would like to know if it is possible to route a Heterogeneous Fleet of Vehicles using OptaPlanner.

Answer 1

Yes, it's been done before.

Just change the (Vrp)Vehicle class accordingly. Currently it already has a capacity, so you can already model vehicles with different capacities. But it's trivial to add other properties (such as maximumSpeed, driverLicenseLevelRequirementEnum, safeAgainstRobberyBoolean, ...).

Then simply use those properties in your new/existing score constraints.