The paper RouteOpt: An Open-Source Modular Exact Solver for Vehicle Routing Problems was accepted by INFORMS Journal on Computing on April 4, 2026.

Paper focus: a modular exact solver for vehicle routing problems, with public code, reproducible computational workflows, and extensible solver components.

The manuscript had received a minor revision decision on March 11, 2026, with reviewers and the area editor recommending acceptance.