# Route Optimisation Coaching Pack — Sources

Accessed 10 August 2026.

## Official product and technical documentation

1. Google OR-Tools — Vehicle Routing  
   https://developers.google.com/optimization/routing

2. Google OR-Tools — Vehicle Routing Problem  
   https://developers.google.com/optimization/routing/vrp

3. Google OR-Tools — Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows  
   https://developers.google.com/optimization/routing/vrptw

4. Google Maps Platform — Route Optimization API  
   https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/route-optimization

5. Google Maps Platform — Interpret the Route Optimization response  
   https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/route-optimization/interpret-response

6. Google Maps Platform — Route Optimization time windows  
   https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/route-optimization/concepts/time-windows

7. HERE — Tour Planning API developer guide  
   https://docs-be.here.com/bundle/tour-planning-api-developer-guide-2.3/raw/resource/enus/Tour_Planning_HLP_v2.3.0_Developer_Guide.pdf

8. GraphHopper Directions API — Routing, matrices and route optimisation  
   https://docs.graphhopper.com/openapi/map-matching-api

9. Timefold — Field Service Routing introduction  
   https://docs.timefold.ai/field-service-routing/latest/introduction

10. Timefold — Routing visualisations  
    https://docs.timefold.ai/field-service-routing/latest/user-guide/visualizations?platform=1

11. Timefold — Metrics and optimisation goals  
    https://docs.timefold.ai/field-service-routing/latest/user-guide/metrics-and-optimization-goals?platform=1

12. OptimoRoute — Features  
    https://optimoroute.com/features/

13. OptimoRoute — Introduction to optimised route planning  
    https://help.optimoroute.com/hc/en-us/articles/27712119329172-Intro-to-optimized-route-planning

14. OptimoRoute — Planning settings  
    https://help.optimoroute.com/hc/en-us/articles/27713151460884-Configure-planning-settings

## Primary research used for the dairy-specific lens

15. Paredes-Belmar, Montero and Leonardini — A milk transportation problem with milk collection centers and vehicle routing, ISA Transactions, 2022  
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2021.04.020

16. Chokanat, Pitakaso and Sethanan — Methodology to Solve a Special Case of the Vehicle Routing Problem: A Case Study in the Raw Milk Transportation System, AgriEngineering, 2019  
    https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering1010006

17. Paredes-Belmar et al. — Vehicle routing for milk collection with gradual blending: A case arising in Chile, European Journal of Operational Research, 2022  
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.04.009

18. Savas et al. — Insertion Heuristics for a Class of Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems, Optimization Online, 2022  
    https://optimization-online.org/2022/11/insertion-heuristics-for-a-class-of-dynamic-vehicle-routing-problems/

## FleetRobo internal product foundations

19. `docs/1-strategy/01-universal-tms-abstractions.md` — Order, Plan, Execute and five planning patterns.

20. `docs/1-strategy/04-consolidated-journeys.md` — Multi-Stop and Consolidated planning journeys.

21. `docs/2-product/07-enterprise-live-v3-blueprint.md` — Live Operations ownership boundary; route optimisation remains a TMS planning concern.