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While in location planning it is often assumed that deliveries are made on a direct-trip basis, in fact deliveries, e.g., to the different supermarkets belonging to a specific chain or to retail outlets of any kind, usually are performed as round-trips. Therefore, it is often necessary to combine the two issues of locating a depot and of planning tours in one problem formulation. In this paper, a...