Route optimization

By default, Timefold optimizes routes to minimize the amount of time drivers spend driving between stops. This lowers costs, reduces emissions, and makes drivers more productive as they spend less time driving.

1. Minimize travel time

The Minimize travel time soft constraint adds a soft score penalty to the dataset score for every second of travel in a route plan. Timefold is incentivized to use the route plan with the lowest score.

Every soft constraint has a weight that can be configured to change the relative importance of the constraint compared to other constraints.

Learn about constraint weights.

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