Problem Model

Input Model

The data provided as inputs to the service are broken into two types, vehicles and commodities. A vehicle represents a movable object that can pick up commodities. A commodity is an object that needs to be moved from one location to another.

Vehicle Model

The vehicle has a required start location and an optional end location.

• Start - Location
• End - Optional

Commodity Model

The commodity model has a required start location and an optional end location. The intermediaries are a set of locations that need to be visited and can be required to be visited in a specific order. Also, each commodity can incur a cost associated with picking it up and dropping it off.

• Start - Location
• End - Optional
• Intermediaries - Set
• Ordered - Boolean
• Cost - Number