Interesting Links

This is a curated selection of links to other sites on the web related to the Vehicle Routing Problem and Operations Research. The original 2006 list has been cleaned up: dead personal pages and defunct sites were removed, and the remaining entries point to stable, well-known resources. Last reviewed in October 2026.

Contents

• Heuristics & Metaheuristics
• Instances & Repositories
• Journals
• Research Groups
• Software
• Publishers
• Green & Electric VRP
• Other VRP Sites
• Other Interesting Links

Heuristics & Metaheuristics

• IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles — the lab where Ant Colony Optimization was born.
• EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies — home of EU/ME, the European chapter on metaheuristics.
• Ant colony optimization algorithms — overview on Wikipedia.
• Metaheuristic — overview on Wikipedia.

Instances & Repositories

• CVRPLIB — instances and best-known solutions for the CVRP and other VRP variants.
• TSPLIB — the classic Traveling Salesman Problem instance library.
• OR-Library — J.E. Beasley's collection of test problems for Operations Research.
• Branch and Cut VRP data — instances used in branch-and-cut(-and-price) studies of the CVRP.
• SINTEF TOP — benchmark instances and best-known solutions for VRPTW and PDPTW.

Journals

• European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier)
• Computers & Operations Research (Elsevier)
• Transportation Science (INFORMS)
• Operations Research (INFORMS)
• INFORMS Journal on Computing (INFORMS)
• Networks (Wiley)
• Omega (Elsevier)
• Journal of Heuristics (Springer)
• Annals of Operations Research (Springer)

Research Groups

• NEO — Networking and Emerging Optimization, the research group behind this site.
• University of Málaga
• LCC — Department of Computer Science, University of Málaga
• CRT — Centre for Research on Transportation, Université de Montréal.
• GERAD — Group for Research in Decision Analysis, Montréal.
• SINTEF — applied research on optimization and transportation.
• INFORMS — Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Software

A modern selection of well-established open VRP and optimization solvers:

• Google OR-Tools — open-source optimization suite with a dedicated vehicle routing solver.
• jsprit — Java toolkit for solving rich VRP and TSP variants.
• VROOM — open-source route optimization engine for real-world fleets.
• PyVRP — state-of-the-art open-source VRP solver written in Python.
• COIN-OR — open-source software for operations research, including the SYMPHONY MILP solver.
• Concorde — the classic code for solving Traveling Salesman Problems.

Publishers

• Elsevier ScienceDirect
• Springer
• Wiley
• INFORMS PubsOnline
• MIT Press
• Cambridge University Press

Green & Electric VRP

• E-VRP description — the Electric VRP page on this site.
• E-VRP instances — benchmark data and sources (Schneider et al.).
• jmanzolli/E-VRPTW — CPLEX model and data for the E-VRPTW benchmark.
• fuvidani/e-vrptw — E-VRPTW solver and instances.
• Green & Electric VRP bibliography — key papers: Bektaş & Laporte, Erdoğan & Miller-Hooks, Schneider et al.

Other VRP Sites

• Vehicle routing problem — overview on Wikipedia.
• IDSIA — Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research, active in VRP metaheuristics.

Other Interesting Links

• Google Scholar — search the scientific literature.
• DBLP — computer science bibliography.
• Wolfram MathWorld — encyclopedia of mathematics.