Optimal planning of flood defence system reinforcements using a greedy search algorithm

Climate change and deterioration require a continuous effort to reinforce flood defences and meet reliability requirements. To efficiently upgrade flood defence systems, insight in costs and benefits of measures at a system level is required throughout the process of planning and design. Due to the size of flood defence systems the number of...

Solving the mTSP for fresh food delivery

A starting company intends to deliver fresh baby food at home addresses in the area of Zwolle, the Netherlands. The limited time windows of delivery encourage the notion of dividing the addresses over several shifts. Dividing optimal routes over these shifts is shown to be an instance of the multiple traveling salesman problem (mTSP). Three...