While the other products focus on routing for a single vehicle at a time, FleetEngine is for fleet optimization such as:

• Fleet management
• Field force planning
• Delivery / pickup jobs
• School bus routing
• Waste collection
• and much more

 

Higher Mapping Solutions Specialises in building the user interfaces to FleetEngine with you own or completely new database.

Features:

• Multiple depots
• Multiple resources (vehicles)
• Multi-day planning
• Asymmetric distance and time matrix
• Job – resource match
• Service time
• Capacity: Weight, volume etc.
• Multiple time windows for a job (such as 8-9 or 10-12)
• Avoiding U-turns en route (curb approach)
• Round trip / open-ended trips
• Mixed pickup and delivery
• Built-in matrix calculation

API:

Tasks are described using XML (schema available) and access layer is either:

• SOAP for server version with support for multiple tasks or
• Self-contained COM for single task optimization
• Interactive application for single task optimization

See the different versions in the documentation for details.

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