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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method and system are provided for automated partitioning of transportation routing problems. The method includes: determining a threshold number of shipments per partition; selecting a geographic center; mapping delivery and/or pickup sites at geographic locations; scanning radially around the geographic center to determine the sparsest or densest region of sites and selecting a starting point in this region; and progressing from the starting point radially around the geographic center aggregating sites into partitions with a maximum of the threshold number of shipments in a partition. The method may include: solving each partitioned instance of a problem to generate one or more optimized routes; and creating a union of all the instances solutions.