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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
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