A PTAS for Capacitated Vehicle Routing on Trees
Data Structures and Algorithms
2022-04-12 v3
Abstract
We give a polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the unit demand capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) on trees, for the entire range of the tour capacity. The result extends to the splittable CVRP.
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@article{arxiv.2111.03735,
title = {A PTAS for Capacitated Vehicle Routing on Trees},
author = {Claire Mathieu and Hang Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.03735},
year = {2022}
}
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Accepted for publication at ICALP 2022
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