Otimização no escalonamento de veículos para atendimento de pedidos pré-estabelecidos

Abstract

Fleet management to cargo transportation involves many decisions, such as: design, the equipment specification, routing, and maintenance costs. This work is focused on routing activity. The objective is to develop an efficient method to perform the scheduling of vehicles for attending pre-established orders. It is considered that the cargo order completely fills the vehicle, the capacity of all vehicles is the same, the source and destination where the cargo must be loaded and unloaded should be known beforehand. To decide whitch request should be handled next the developed method should be applied. The potential of the tool is verified by reducing costs and by its runtime, which enables wide applicability.