[rules-users] OptaPlanner vehicle routing problem with "multiple depots"

Dear OptaPlanner users, I am working for a small company located in Munich and have a software problem, which I would like to solve with OptaPlnner. In our case, we have multiple technicians which are starting their work each day from different locations (e.g. their homes). Each technician has to serve customers at different locations. Each customers has his own time window for the visit (earliest arrival time, wait time, planned start time, planned end time, real end time, …). On one hand the route of each technician should be optimized. Also the planned customer time window should be met optimally. There should not be many empty gaps in the time schedule of single technicians. For me this looks somehow similar like the vehicle routing problem with time window. In our case we have the following similarities: Customer= Customer Vehicle = Technician Time windows = Time windows + additional time windows Depot = We have many Depots (Starting locations) for each single technician I do not know how I could transfer the parameter capacity of the vehicle – probably I don’t need it.. What I tried: I changed the parameters in the xml-input file to change the location position of the customers and also the different time windows. But I don’t succeed to add additional depots (customers)? Does somebody has an idea how to realize that? Best regards. Milenko -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/OptaPlanner-vehicle-routing-problem-wit... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.