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A scientific study helps confirm TruckStops' power
 The study was published in the July/August 1994 issue of Operations Research, the leading professional journal of the Operations Research Society of America (now INFORMS). Dr. Marshall J. Fisher of the University of Pennsylvania solved twelve vehicle routing problems to a true optimum, meaning the routes could not be improved any further. It's important to note that Fisher had to simplify the data significantly, excluding time windows and other real-world constraints to obtain optimum solutions. Complete input data was published for three problems, so MicroAnalytics took Fisher’s data and ran it through TruckStops. Within minutes, TruckStops came within 1.9% of the reported optimum results.
This study is significant not only because it gives the true optimum solution to somewhat realistic problems, but also because it provides a baseline against which commercial routing and scheduling systems can be compared. TruckStops superior performance in this comparison demonstrates its optimization power, especially because it handles the real-world constraints that Fisher’s study omitted.
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