for three central arc routing problems (and their corresponding variants): CHINESE
POSTMAN, where one asks for a minimum-cost tour traversing all edges of a graph at least
once; RURAL POSTMAN, which generalizes CHINESE POSTMAN in the sense that only a
subset of the edges has to be visited; and CAPACITATED ARC ROUTING, representing the
most general arc routing problem in this chapter, allows more than one vehicle to be used to …
2.1 ▪ Introduction
This chapter is devoted to surveying aspects of computational complexity for three central arc routing problems (and their corresponding variants):
CHINESE POSTMAN, where one asks for a minimum-cost tour traversing all edges of a graph at least once;
RURAL POSTMAN, which generalizes CHINESE POSTMAN in the sense that only a subset of the edges has to be visited; and
CAPACITATED ARC ROUTING, representing the most general arc routing problem in this chapter, allows more than one vehicle to be used to traverse the edges.
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