IBM ILOG Dispatcher User's Manual > The Basics > Minimizing the Number of Vehicles

In this lesson, you will learn how to:

You will learn how to solve a vehicle routing problem (VRP) where the main objective is to reduce the number of vehicles. Dispatcher's graph functionality is also introduced in this lesson. You will learn how to create a graph representing a road network and to compute the shortest paths between visits from this graph. The graph functionality can be used to compute distance and time dimensions in any routing problem. Conversely, you could also use Euclidean, Manhattan, or another type of distance computation for the problem in this lesson.