RouteOpt: An Open-Source Modular Exact Solver for Vehicle Routing Problems

Despite significant advancements in exact methods for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) over the past three decades, there remains a lack of high-performing and accessible open-source solvers for researchers and practitioners. To bridge this gap, we introduce RouteOpt, the first open-source modular exact solver for VRPs, delivering state-of-the-art performance while maintaining a flexible and extensible structure. RouteOpt achieves the best performance reported in the literature on both the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) and vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW).

April 2026 · Ricky Zhengzhong You, Yu Yang