Joseph Kirk

Victor, the population size is part of the GA configuration - it has nothing to do with the TSP in general...

Fredrik,
In the standard formulation of the TSP, the optimal solution can start at any city. If you want to force the solution to start at a specific city, you can manipulate the output as follows:

Supposing that you have requested "optRoute" as an output and that you want the solution to start at the first city, you can type the following into the Command Window:

>> index = find(optRoute == 1);
>> finalRoute = optRoute([index:end 1:index-1])

Newmat, that is because the code is a function. The stuff that happens inside is essentially a black box as far as the stuff outside is concerned. Certain variables are passed as output if you request them (see examples) but if you really need the internal variables, I suggest adding a line at the end of the function that saves the variables to a .mat file. [i.e. add the line: "save('TSPvariables.mat')" without the quotes after the last line of code in the function]

Found my answer in another revision of your file =)

thanks ... it has been very useful