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Demand scheduled partial carrier load planning system for the transportation industry

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  • US 5,265,006 A
  • Filed: 12/26/1990
  • Issued: 11/23/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for determining instructions for moving a plurality of orders in a geographic territory using a single carrier, each said order having an independent origin and destination point in said territory, said plurality of orders being selected from a larger pool of orders in the territory, said apparatus comprising:

  • a) means specifying a data representation of an artificial network containing a plurality of vectorized shipping paths in the territory;

    b) means for entering order data to form order records, each order record defining an order;

    c) means for organizing and accessing a plurality of order records defining said pool of orders;

    d) means for determining a vector representation of the path from the origin to the destination for each order in said pool;

    e) means for matching the vector representations of the order paths to one or more of said vectorized shipping paths of the data representation;

    f) means for selecting from the matches a group of order records corresponding to orders that can be carried by a single carrier between their respective origins and destinations;

    g) means for determining move sequence instructions for the carrier to pick up and deliver the orders corresponding to the selected order records; and

    h) means for reporting said move sequence instructions.

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