I loved doing OR for my final project at Uni, it was great solving the travelling salesman problem for a taxi network routing it to the correct people and picki

I loved doing OR for my final project at Uni, it was great solving the travelling salesman problem for a taxi network routing it to the correct people and picking people up in realtime around an imaginary map of points. I remember thinking as I took a cab into halls from the station "wouldn't this be amazing if I could have a device that told me exactly where each cab was at any point and maybe hook into the satnav somehow". In 1999 [1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB720GB720&sxsrf=ACYBGNRalVeeyMJjrU49N2rYgvvNwar24Q:1574458503337&q=phones+1999&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje97f-4v7lAhUFUhUIHWrFAboQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1441&bih=1066 https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB720GB720&sxsrf...