PTV Group - Logistics Forum

Hi there, as a watcher in this forum you are probably familiar with the story behind loading space optimization and you know pictures such as this one: loadingspace.png Now this time I have a question to you: How do drivers in reality pick the freight into the containers / bins? Do they use tools su...

As you know we offer the PlanToursOptions com.ptvgroup.xserver.xtour.CalculationMode : [PERFORMANCE | STANDARD | QUALITY | ... com.ptvgroup.xserver.xtour.PlanToursOptions.enableOptimizationPremium [true | false] As I get asked for a recommended combination of these values I want to give some generic...

Here's some little brain teaser for the story... Balancing4Dummies.png The setting for this ficticious example is based on 100 orders 10 vehicles Now here are the changes through the iterations where I play with the maximum tour distance: Initial result based on 9 hours: Only 7 vehicles used: BAD al...

Bormio.png { "waypoints": [ { "location": { "coordinate": { "x": 10.37957, "y": 46.466862, "zSpecified": false }, "considerAlternativeNearByRoads": false, "considerAlternativeNearByRoadsSpecified": true, "sideOfStr...

Hello Ignacio, you already gathered the proper, iteration based approach for this story: Plan the lead order first Use it's ouput time window for the dependent orders. Unfortunately there's no matching feature in the xTour2 API that links two resources (drivers/vehicles) to the same order in the way...

Dear Customer, Dear Partner, We would like to inform you that we plan maintenance on the PTV World City Map [Here] production clusters with API Version 2. The production clusters will be updated according to this schedule: May 7th, 2024: Update on xserver2-eu production cluster Update to PTV xServe...

Just some fancy experiment... I took almost 10'000 locations with zipcodes and activities.

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  the native 9288 individual locations

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  preaggregated into 2779 representing "zips" with accumulated activities

From my perspective you wouldn't loose quality if you aggregate...
But you need less resources.

Release of PTV xServer 2.32.0 The PTV xServer and the PTV Content Update Service 2.32 is released! Besides several improvements and bugfixes we provide these main features: xData Considering binary custom Feature Layer during the high-performance routing network creation xDima Considering the total...

This is a result of dummy data of a single bin planning: The prospect then asked me, whether the output could focus on a lower tower height instead of reducing the floor's coverage. stacking-original.png Well, there's no built in target function or parameter for this, but what I applied in the next ...

As I have just been asked for "is it possible to render own POI in DEV/xMap2?": With modern mapping frameworks such as Leaflet, OpenLayers, xServer.NET the visualization of content is based on multiple layers: Geographic layers with street network, town labels layers here.png Additional ti...