tsp_att48


tsp_att48, a MATLAB code which returns the (x,y) coordinates of the cities that constitute the AT&T 48 state challenge for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). The optimal path is approximately 33,523 units in length.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

tsp_att48 is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran77 version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version and an R version.

Related Data and Programs:

tsp_att48_test

concorde, examples which call concorde(), which solves the traveling salesman problem (TSP), mixed integer programming, and related network optimization problems.

tsp, a dataset directory which contains test data for the traveling salesperson problem (TSP) including the AT&T 48 state capital test, and Dantzig's 42 city test;

tsp_anneal, a MATLAB code which is given a table of city locations, and solves the traveling salesperson problem (TSP) using simulated annealing.

tsp_brute, a MATLAB code which is given a city location table, and solves a (small) traveling salesperson problem (TSP), using brute force.

tsp_dantzig42, a MATLAB code which returns the (x,y) coordinates of the cities that constitute the Dantzig 42 state challenge for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP).

tsp_display, a MATLAB code which displays the solution of a Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP).

tsp_moler, a MATLAB code which tries to optimize the traveling salesperson problem (TSP), written by Cleve Moler.

tsp_nearest, a MATLAB code which is given a city location table, and solves a small traveling salesperson problem (TSP) using the nearest neighbor algorithm. It picks a starting city at random, and then successively visits the nearest unvisited city.

tsp_random, a MATLAB code which is given a table of city locations, seeks a solution of the Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP), by randomly generating round trips that visit every city, returning the tour of shortest length.

Reference:

  1. William Cook,
    In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman,
    Princeton University Press, 2012,
    ISBN13 978-0-691-16352-9.
  2. Gerhard Reinelt,
    TSPLIB - A Traveling Salesman Problem Library,
    ORSA Journal on Computing,
    Volume 3, Number 4, Fall 1991, pages 376-384.

Source Code:


Last revised on 17 June 2026.