PTV Group - Logistics Forum

Hi there,

today I discussed the following reoccuring topic with our global consultants:
A customer describes his usecase as a sequencing topic

• He wants to optimize a single resource
• He approaches this with planSequence
• He wants to know how to parametrize this scenario

So what I experienced several times in the past is

• a customer starts implementation with planSequence
• he complains about poor quality of planing results ("my dispatcher finds a better solution")
• we analyse his scenario
• we find a better solution but with changes in the touropt.ini (using different planning algorithms)
• we tell him to use planBasicTours instead because it is more flexible (I prefer "approaching the methods by API" over "approach methods by TOUROPT.ini") but...
• ...we would limit his license file to xtour.maxVehicleCount=1 and xtour.planBasicToursAllowed=true
• he complains about "I already spent so much time in planSequence"

I helped many players with this approach and therefore I'd like to recommend this on a generic base.
Under the roof planSequence is using the same component as planBasicTours.
But while you can override the steps via planBasicTours this is not possible with planSequence: the methods used in planSequence are not available through the API.

Check this:
http://xserver.ptvgroup.com/forum/viewt ... uence#p494

Feedback is welcome!

Best regards,
Bernd