| Article ID: | iaor2005760 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 499 |
| End Page Number: | 509 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2004 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Kahng Andrew B., Reda Sherief |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
We present a new symmetric traveling salesman problem tour construction heuristic. Two sequential matchings yield a set of cycles over the given point set; these are then stitched to form a tour. Our method outperforms all previous tour construction methods, but is dominated by several tour improvement heuristics.