Question: ( Class 2 0 ) You are tasked with determining vehicle routes in order to minimize the total travel time ( or costs ) across

(Class 20) 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 400 meaning that it cannot deliver more than 400 units of the product along its route. The
travel times between all entities are given in the figure below.
\table[[d,,1,2,3,4,5],[d,0,30,25,15,20,15],[1,30,0,10,20,20,25],[2,25,10,0,30,10,25],[3,15,20,30,0,20,5],[4,20,20,10,20,0,12.5],[5,15,25,25,5,12.5,0]]
Point 1 has a demand of 120, Point 2 has a demand of 200, Point 3 has a demand of 160, Point
4 has a demand of 80, and Point 5 has a demand of 240. 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.
( Class 2 0 ) You are tasked with determining

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