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Loggi’s Rio deliveries, at real scale

Loggi is one of Brazil’s largest last-mile carriers. Its open benchmark (loggibud, MIT-licensed) models real urban delivery from public geography. The source went offline — repository and dataset both gone — so this Rio de Janeiro instance was recovered from the Internet Archive and committed with its license. 1,765 deliveries, one depot: a genuinely large problem, solved.

1,765real Rio de Janeiro deliveries, one depot
1,140.7 kmthe routing produced by PyVRP
55vehicles in the solution
~48sto route all of them
Real Brazilian last-mile

1,765 deliveries across one city

Each blue point below is a real delivery location in Rio de Janeiro; the red marker is the distribution hub. With a vehicle capacity of 180 and total demand of 9,773, this is the kind of instance a real operator faces every morning — far beyond anything an exact solver can touch.

The full Loggi instance: 1,765 delivery points (blue) served from one depot (red). PyVRP routes all of them in ~48s; an exact solver cannot even prove optimality on twelve of these.
The wall, dramatically

Exact can’t prove twelve; the engine solves 1,765

Take a twelve-stop slice. HiGHS and BIS’s HGS agree on 31.92 km — but here the exact solver cannot even prove that is optimal within the time budget: Loggi’s loose capacity makes the MILP relaxation weak, so the proof is hard on a problem the metaheuristic finds trivial. Scale that contrast to the full instance and the exact approach is simply not in the conversation.

On all 1,765 deliveries, PyVRP — the reference open-source Hybrid Genetic Search — returns a 1,140.7 km solution with 55 vehicles in about 48 seconds. There is no published best-known for this instance, so we report the metaheuristic cost and the exact-on-a-slice agreement rather than claim optimality.

Honest provenance. Loggi’s loggibud is MIT-licensed but went offline (repo and S3 dataset both 404). This instance was recovered from the Internet Archive’s 2024 snapshot and committed under its license. Distances are an equirectangular projection of the real coordinates to metres, reported in kilometres (Loggi’s own 12 GB road-distance matrix is not redistributed). Reproducible from the linked repository.

A fleet problem this size — or bigger?

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