VeRoLog Solver Challenge is aimed at promoting the development of effective algorithms for real-world applications in Vehicle Routing. The problem subject of the challenge is defined with the collaboration of a company and will be accompanyied by real-world instances of the problem.

The first edition of the challenge was organized in 2013/14 with the help of PTV and regarded the Swap-Body VRP. Out of more 25 intial teams ten finalist teams passed the preselection and submitted their codes:

The winners were declared in Oslo on June 25,2014 and were:

Rank	Team #	Affiliation	Country	Members
1	1	KU Leuven	Belgium	Jan Christiaens, Tony Wauters, Túlio Toffolo, Sam Van Malderen
2	11	FCEyN, Univ. de Buenos Aires	Argentina	Juan Jose Miranda Bront, Brian Curcio, Federico Pousa, Isabel Méndez-Díaz,  Agustin Montero, Paula Zabala
3	5	Helmut-Schmidt-University	Germany	Martin Josef Geiger, Sandra Huber
Finalist	2	Univ. of Maryland	USA	Oliver Lum, Xingyin Wang,  Ping Chen, Bruce Golden
Finalist	6	EMSE	France	Diego Cattaruzza, Nabil Absi, Dominique Feillet, Sylvain Housseman
Finalist	12	RANDOM, Univ. of Twente	Netherlands	Rick van Urk, A.E. Pérez Rivera
Finalist	13	Univ. of Sarajevo	Bosnia	Vedran Muhović, Mirsad Buljubasic, Michel Vasquez,  Haris Gavranovic
Finalist	20	Univ. de Valenciennes	France	Raca Todosijevic, Said Hanafi, Bassem Jarboui, Nenad Mladenovic, Dragan Urosevic
Finalist	22	Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications	China	Mingliang Tao, Yateng Hong, Jun Li, Meng Wang
Finalist	25	Warwick Business School	U.K.	Vladimir Deineko, Vinh Doan,  Alexander Tiskin