Fleet planning method and apparatus and program

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle operation plan creation method, apparatus and program that draft a vehicle allocation plan that increases a turnover rate of vehicles for picking up and delivering loads at a plurality of scattered delivery bases and to destinations and reduces delivery costs.;SOLUTION: The method for creating an operation plan for vehicles for picking up and delivering loads at a plurality of delivery bases and to a plurality of destinations has a planning data selection processing step of asking an input and selection of data on loads to be delivered, that is, delivery order data, a data reading processing step of reading the delivery order data, master data necessary for vehicle operation plan creation, and a search scenario indicating a search order and a search method, an optimum operation plan creation processing step of creating a vehicle operation plan from the delivery order data and master data according to the search scenario through search processing of maximizing an objective function that sums differences each between vehicle receipts gained by each vehicle and vehicle operation costs of operating each vehicle, and a vehicle operation plan output step of outputting the created vehicle operation plan.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI