VROOM on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

VROOM (Vehicle Routing Open source Optimization Machine) solves the planning problem behind every delivery round, service call rota and collection route: given a set of jobs and a fleet of vehicles, it works out who does what and in which sequence, at the lowest total cost. It covers the travelling salesman problem, capacitated routing, routing with time windows and paired pickup and delivery, and it models the constraints real fleets actually carry, including multi dimensional capacities for weight, volume and pallet count at once, job time windows and driver shift hours, skills so only a suitably equipped vehicle serves a job, job priorities that decide what gets dropped when not everything fits, mandatory driver breaks, and per vehicle ceilings on travel time, distance and task count. It is fast enough that planners re optimise interactively rather than waiting for an overnight batch. VROOM computes its plan from a travel time matrix, which you can supply directly in the request, or have VROOM build from coordinates by pointing it at a routing engine you operate.

Common uses

• Plan daily delivery rounds across a fleet with capacity limits and customer time windows
• Schedule field service or maintenance visits so only suitably skilled engineers take each job
• Re optimise collection and distribution routes interactively as jobs are added or cancelled