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Tour planning
Dispatchers and logistics planners own tour planning day to day: they determine which vehicle calls at which delivery points and in what sequence, so that load capacity is maximised and empty kilometres are kept to a minimum.
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Dispatchers and logistics planners own tour planning day to day: they determine which vehicle calls at which delivery points and in what sequence, so that load capacity is maximised and empty kilometres are kept to a minimum. Constraints that must be balanced simultaneously include vehicle payload, agreed delivery time windows, driving and rest hour regulations, and live road conditions. Well-executed route planning cuts transport costs, reduces fuel consumption and emissions, and raises on-time delivery rates. Modern tour optimisation software calculates optimal routes from real-time traffic data and adjusts dynamically for congestion, road closures, or last-minute order changes. Tour planning differs from strategic network design – which determines depot locations and transport lanes over longer planning horizons – in that it is an operational, typically day-level process.
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