Quantum Approaches for Vehicle Routing Optimization on Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Platforms: Applications of QAOA and Quantum Annealing for Vehicle Routing Problems [Focus: Quantum Software and its Engineering]
Bruno Rosendo, Daniel Fortunato, Rui Abreu · IEEE Software · 2025
Transportation significantly impacts urban energy consumption and environmental sustainability, making optimization critical. Quantum computing provides a promising approach to improving transportation systems by tackling vehicle routing problem variations using the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization model.