Route & Scheduling Tool for Social Good

随着人们行动的限制，以前依赖于拜访客户的小企业现在发现自己不得不探索向客户家庭地址提供服务的选择以生存。小企业没有太多的人力资源，也没有大公司的后勤支持和工具，目前他们将依赖于提供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轮班和区域覆盖，次优路线将增加工作人员的时间、燃料使用和排放，从而增加成本，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室也是一个关键问题。我们的项目开发了一个最佳的路线和调度工具，用于本地化交付，以帮助企业和志愿者高效地为社区服务。路线工具还将有助于了解需要维持哪些服务以提供前往医院的机会，并为关键的保健工作人员提供最佳的拼车服务。

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.