Tag: Route Optimization OptiFlow API
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Clearer names for the Route Optimization API
If you plan tours with PTV Developer, you will notice new names in the documentation. We renamed our two route optimization APIs, so it is easier to see which one to use.
What changes
- “Route Optimization OptiFlow API” is now Route Optimization API V2.
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The Depot Has a Capacity Too
Three loading docks. Two forklifts. Eleven people on the early shift. Whatever the optimiser decides, that building can move a certain amount of goods in a day and not one pallet more.
Load limits in planning have traditionally been asked at one place only: what fits on the vehicle.…
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The Second Whiteboard
In a lot of transport offices there are two planning systems. One is the software. The other is a whiteboard, or a spreadsheet, or one person’s memory, and it tracks the things the software does not know about: which truck is free after the morning shift, which trailer is off the road until Thursday, whether the crew that needs 90 minutes to sanitise its equipment can make the next job.…
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Nine Hours on the Road Is Not Nine Hours of Driving
Cap a route at nine hours and you have said something about the shift. You have said almost nothing about the driving.
Those nine hours contain loading at the depot, service time at each customer, waiting for a time window to open, and the driver’s breaks.…
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Twenty Minutes Per Stop Is a Fiction Everyone Agrees To
Ask a planner how long a delivery takes and you will get a number. Twenty minutes. It is a good number. It is also, at almost every individual stop, wrong.
The articulated truck with a tail lift takes longer than the van. The first stop of the day takes no time at all, because the vehicle was loaded overnight and nothing has to be moved.…
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The Driver Was Already at Work Two Hours Before the Route Began
04:30. The driver badges in at the warehouse. For the next two hours it is picking, checking and loading. This is work, it is logged as work, and the working time clock is running.
06:30. The vehicle pulls out of the yard, and the optimised route begins.…