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Add feature to balance shifts across vehicles

Open Sagmedjo opened this issue 1 month ago • 0 comments

PR Summary

This PR adds workload balancing across vehicles, not just across tours. In many real-world cases (e.g. hourly field technicians), a vehicle/employee has a fixed number of available shifts per month. The cost-optimal solution can assign very few tours (e.g. 2 out of 21 shifts), making the job financially unviable and causing staff churn.

To address this, the PR adds a new secondary objective that minimizes the variance of:

assigned_tours / available_shifts

This encourages a fairer distribution of work across all vehicles while still respecting the primary cost objective.

This is a first simple approach to vehicle-level equity, and I’m open to further improvements or alternative balancing metrics.

Sagmedjo avatar Nov 15 '25 23:11 Sagmedjo