This is a repository containing the code that I wrote for my article on the Travelling Swiftie Problem. It solves the open travelling salesman problem for the set of locations visited by the Tennessean girl in the song London Boy, from the album, Lover, by Taylor Swift.
Further, this README file contains the links to all resources and weblinks that I mention in both the article, and in the talk.
The full article can be found here.
- The Travelling Swiftie Problem
- London Boy by Taylor Swift
- The Twitter post that inspired it all
- OpenStreetMap
- This Repository
- Google OR-Tools - Routing
- Prof. Güneş Erdoğan's VRP Spreadsheet Solver
- Prof. Rhyd Lewis' Resources
- Sciortino, M., Lewis, R. & Thompson, J. A School Bus Routing Heuristic Algorithm Allowing Heterogeneous Fleets and Bus Stop Selection. SN COMPUT. SCI. 4, 74 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01466-6
- Gartner, D., Frey, M., & Kolisch, R. (2018). Hospital-wide therapist scheduling and routing: Exact and heuristic methods. IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 8(4), 268–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/24725579.2018.1530314
If you have any questions, or would like to keep up with my work, you can find me:
- Email: [email protected]
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