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Arc routing problems (ARPs) arise naturally in several applications where streets require maintenance, or customers located along road must be serviced. The undirected rural postman problem (URPP) is to determine a least cost tour traversing at least once each edge that requires a service. When demands are put on the edges and this total demand must be covered by a fleet of identical vehicles of capacity Q based at a depot, one gets the undirected capacitated arc routing problem (UCARP). The URPP and UCARP are known to be NP-hard. This chapter reports on recent exact and heuristic algorithms for the URPP and UCARP.
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Hertz, A. (2005). Recent Trends in Arc Routing. In: Golumbic, M.C., Hartman, I.BA. (eds) Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, vol 34. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25036-0_9
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