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Option to force all vehicles to service locations

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, node.js
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading the linked fairness-constraint issue and locating the vehicle-routing setup in the bindings; the issue provides the proposed NextVar constraint. Check how an option is exposed, then verify with a routing example that every vehicle is required to service a location.

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Description

We should provide an option to force all vehicles on the road.
Probably goes hand in hand with the fairness constraint, see https://github.com/mapbox/node-or-tools/issues/1.


Implementation: remove the depot from the start's NextVar, so vehicles have to service locations:

model.CloseModel()

for (auto vehicle = 0; vehicle < numVehicles; ++vehicle) {
  IntVar* const start = routing.NextVar(routing.Start(vehicle));
  for (auto node = routing.Size(); node < routing.Size() + routing.vehicles(); ++node)
    start->RemoveValue(node);
}
Dominant language
C++
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Forks
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