Sub route

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A sub route is typically relevant for routes with many pickups or deliveries where it is needed to go to a depot several times to get emptied or refilled, depending upon task and capacity. This means most jobs either has the same pickup or delivery coordinates.

 

Number of sub routes are simply counted as the number of times a pickup job is followed by a delivery job.

 

Example with 2 sub routes:

Home depot

Pickup1

Pickup2

Pickup3

Pickup4

Delivery1 - Delivery2 - Delivery3 - Delivery4 (empty vehicle)

Pickup5

Pickup6

Pickup7

Delivery5 - Delivery6 - Delivery7 (empty vehicle)

Home depot

 

Example with 3 sub routes:

Home depot

Pickup1 - Pickup2 (fill vehicle)

Delivery1

Delivery2

Pickup3 - Pickup4 (fill vehicle)

Delivery3

Delivery4

Pickup5 - Pickup6 - Pickup7 (fill vehicle)

Delivery5

Delivery6

Delivery7

Home depot