Question: 2. (Class 21) You are tasked with determining vehicle routes in order to minimize the total travel time (or costs) across all routes. All vehicles

2. (Class 21) You are tasked with determining

2. (Class 21) You are tasked with determining vehicle routes in order to minimize the total travel time (or costs) across all routes. All vehicles leave from a central depot d and there are 5 points that must be visited. Each point has a demand level and each vehicle has a capacity of 50 meaning that it cannot deliver more than 50 units of the product along its route. The travel times between all entities are given in the figure below. d N 3 d 0 1 Nm 0 120 100 60 80 60 2 3 4 5 1 120 0 40 80 80 100 60 80 120 0 2 100 40 0 120 40 100 4 80 80 40 80 0 50 5 60 100 100 20 50 0 80 20 Point 1 has a demand of 15, Point 2 has a demand of 25, Point 3 has a demand of 20, Point 4 has a demand of 10, and Point 5 has a demand of 30. Apply the cost-savings algorithm to determine the set of vehicle routes that should be implemented, while respecting the capacity of the vehicles. For full credit, at each step, provide the set of current routes, the time taken to travel each of the current routes, and the total time required to travel all current routes. You can provide arguments for why you no longer need to consider merging a particular route with another one in order to save you the effort of examining all pairs of points during the implementation of the cost-savings algorithm

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