Solving capacitated vehicle routing problem with route optimisation based on equilibrium optimiser algorithm

In this paper, we have presented an optimising approach based on equilibrium optimiser (EO) algorithm for solving the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP). The CVRP is considered one of the NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problems and most of algorithms failed to reach optimality in these problems. The EO algorithm is a powerful technique in solving several combinatorial optimisation problems. The performance of the EO algorithm compared with the artificial bee colony algorithm, the particle swarm optimisation algorithm, and the whale optimisation algorithm. The computational results obtained for the CVRP model illustrate the power of the EO algorithm over the competitor algorithms.