This is controlled by a pull-down menu in the visualization worksheet.
The users now can choose the level of detail for the Bing Maps routes being displayed.Users can now select the mode of transportation for Bing Maps routes on the console worksheet, as Driving, Truck, or Walking.The animation can be sped up by pressing (holding down) the key. Users now can animate the solution on the visualization worksheet.Please consult their Terms of Service ( ) before using the VRP Spreadsheet Solver. Within this study, we will be using free services of Bing Maps. Both offer a limited free service, and extended services for subscribers. The leading public GIS systems at this point are Bing Maps and Google Maps. The capabilities of public GIS have significantly increased in the past few years. Hence, constructing a unified platform for the data sources, solution algorithms, and visual representation of the results is a problem on its own. It is not straightforward to manually find a solution of a VRP, much less so to compute its cost or to visualize it. The results of the algorithms are usually represented as a single value, the total cost, and it can only mean so much. Distance and driving time data have to be retrieved from a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database, which requires investment. On the other hand, most academics develop solution algorithms in C++ and the resulting codes are not for the faint of heart.
On one hand, the standard software for small to medium scale quantitative analysis for businesses has been established as, arguably, Microsoft Excel.
Without a unified platform, every VRP should be tackled on its own, with the results getting lost in the ocean of information that is the Internet.
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