Route & Scheduling Tool for Social Good

路线

• 批准号: 62379
• 金额: $ 5.72万
• 依托单位: CITY SCIENCE CORPORATION LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=62379
• 关键词: Route; Scheduling; Tool; Social; Good

With the restriction of people's movement small businesses which previously relied on visiting customers now find themselves having to explore the option of delivering to the customer home address to survive. Small businesses do not have much in the way of staff resources nor the logistical support and tools of larger companies, at present they would be relying on consumer satnav which offer A to B routing. Similarly,the volunteer army for delivering supplies to vulnerable people will require local groups to coordinate shifts and area coverage.Suboptimal routing will increase staff time, fuel usage and emissions, costing money and reducing the number of customers businesses and volunteers can reach and support with their resources. With reduced public transport, coordinating staff access to hospital and critical care is also a key issue.Our project develops an optimal routing and scheduling tool for localised deliveries to help businesses and volunteers efficiently and effectively serve their communities. The routing tool will also help understand which services need to be maintained to provide access to hospitals, and provide optimal car-pooling for key health-care staff.

由于人员流动受到限制，以前依赖拜访客户的小企业现在发现自己必须探索送货到客户家庭地址的选择才能生存。小型企业没有大公司的人力资源，也没有大公司的后勤支持和工具，目前他们将依赖提供 A 到 B 路由的消费者卫星导航。同样，向弱势群体运送物资的志愿军将需要当地团体协调班次和区域覆盖范围。次优路线会增加员工时间、燃料使用和排放，增加资金成本，并减少企业和志愿者可以利用其资源接触和支持的客户数量。随着公共交通的减少，协调工作人员前往医院和重症监护也是一个关键问题。我们的项目开发了一种用于本地化交付的最佳路线和调度工具，以帮助企业和志愿者高效、有效地为他们的社区服务。该路线工具还将帮助了解需要维护哪些服务才能提供前往医院的服务，并为关键医护人员提供最佳的拼车服务。