Successor of xTour1.toursMustFitIntoSingleOperatingInterval

[Bernd Welter]

Hi there,

recently I've been asked for the xTour2 parameter that replaces xtour1's BaseVehicle property:

toursMustFitIntoSingleOperatingInterval

boolean

If set to true, tours must fit into a single operating interval. This attribute is ignored for the method planOvernightTours because this use case must consider several operating intervals.

As an example, users modell a vehicle with the 5 operating intervals "monday to friday, 9am to 5pm"...

So here's how Alex and I discussed the two potential values:

• true : that's the default behaviour. Simply use 5 operating intervals. As a trip has to be contained in a single interval this will ensure the driver returns home at the end of the interval.
  Attention: if your planning approach doesn't use trip delimiters (depots), e.g. because you exclusively plan VisitOrders, this may return single day tours only...
• false :
  • use one large global interval from "monday 9am" to "friday 5pm"
  • besides the breaks during the day just create further BreakIntervals with fixed length for each night:

    Code: Select all

    {
     "interval": { "$type": "StartEndInterval", "start" : ..monday.. 5pm,    "end" :  ..tuesday.. 9am  },
      "breakTime" : 57600
    },
    {
     "interval": { "$type": "StartEndInterval", "start" : ..tuesday.. 5pm,    "end" :  ..wednesday.. 9am  },
      "breakTime" : 57600
    }, and so forth
    

Bernd