As far as I know, applying time windows to Shipment using .setPickupTimeWindow() and .setDeliveryTimeWindow() will impose a hard constraint on solution searching process. If I understand it correctly, it means that these windows should not be broken.
On the other hand, I would like to allow vehicles to pickup / deliver shipments slightly out of time window (let’s say, they can arrive and deliver shipment in 5 minutes after time window ends). While searching for possible solutions, I’ve looked through SoftActivityConstraint class and thought about applying a soft constraint on each inserted job in route to have 0 cost if vehicle is late for less than 5 minutes.
Can I influence vehicles’ arrival and finish times? Can it be implemented using SoftActivityConstraint? Thanks in advance.