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Cheapest trip

Another objective we can consider is minimising the travel cost. By changing our objective function in the optimisation model, we get the optimal path in the animation above.

The cheapest trip finishes the tour in 20 days and 23 hours. In the map above, blue lines represent flights and black lines represent bus journeys.

Cheapest trip details

We start this trip at St. Petersburg and finish at Baku. Our most expensive connections are from St. Petersburg to London with an average price of €177, and from Budapest to Baku for €160. We use bus and ferry connections on this trip. Total trip time, in this case, is quite long – almost 21 days.

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Sertalp B. Cay

Sertalp B. Cay is an Operations Research Specialist in the Operations Research department within SAS R&D's Advanced Analytics division. He works on various topics at SAS including mixed-integer linear optimization, conic optimization, and black-box optimization. He maintains the open-source Python optimization modeling package, sasoptpy. He earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University.

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