In the VRP literature, the Arc Routing Problem is often advocated as an adequate model for routing applications such as newspaper delivery and garbage collection. We argue that a better model is the Node Edge Arc Routing Problem (NEARP), combining demand on nodes, edges, and arcs in a transportation network. We describe how we have extended a node based VRP solver to enable modeling and resolution of the NEARP, and network based heuristics for aggregating node-based demand into demands on arcs and edges. Experimental results on standard benchmarks and industrial cases are presented.The Node Edge Arc Routing Problem - applications and heuristic
