Academic Year 2022-2023
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
Team Name: Shuffling Trees
Lindsay Knupp
Johnny Rasnic
Abdulrahman Alenezi
William Howe
Final Report can be found here.
We investigated a vehicle routing problem (VRP) with regards to Scottish forestry operations. We researched simulated annealing, ant colony optimization, and linear programming to perform a comparative analysis of the three heuristics. We wanted to understand the decisions that minimized wait times and maximized efficiency.