Market analysis of software for planning runs and routes

The transport company performs deliveries and pick-up during the same run. Because the individual transport orders are received at short notice, there is little time for scheduling. The goal of introducing a piece of software is to support schedulers. The software product should support the scheduling of the vehicles, vehicle crews, and goods to be carried. In a first step, the deliveries and pick-ups should be combined into stops, and the stops should be grouped into regions while taking into account the available vehicles, crews, and loading possibilities. In a second step, the sequence of the stops should be optimized in regard to the path distance and the route according to road maps, wherein railroad crossings, temporary obstacles such as construction sites, etc. should be taken into account.