= Introduction

== What is OptaWeb Vehicle Routing?

The main purpose of many types of businesses is to transport various types of cargo.
The goal of these businesses is to deliver a piece of cargo from the loading point to a destination and use its vehicle fleet in the most efficient way.
This type of optimization problem is referred to as the https://www.optaplanner.org/learn/useCases/vehicleRoutingProblem.html[vehicle routing problem] (VRP) and has many variations.

https://www.optaplanner.org/[OptaPlanner] can solve many of these vehicle routing variations and provides solution examples.
OptaPlanner enables developers to focus on modeling business rules and requirements instead of learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming[constraint programming] theory.
OptaWeb Vehicle Routing expands OptaPlanner's vehicle routing capabilities by providing a reference implementation that answers questions such as these:

* Where do I get the distances and travel times?
* How do I visualize the solution on a map?
* How do I build an application that runs in the cloud?
