2.24 Finish Segments

The finish segment of a route is defined as the part of the route from the last DELIVERY stop to the FINISH stop. There may be intervening BREAK stops between these two stops.

The optimiser can optionally apply a penalty based on the transit time or distance of the finish segment of a route. These penalties take the form of an additional hidden cost.

Penalties applied to the finish segment are used to tell the optimiser to prefer solutions in which vehicles end their routes “close” to their finish locations.