SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A TRANSPORTATION PLAN

Patent №

US 11,037,262

Granted

2021-06-15

Filed 2020

Owner

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16852897

Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer program products are provided. In an example embodiment, a method is provided comprising receiving input identifying load information corresponding to a load to be inserted into a transportation plan. The transportation plan comprises a plurality of transportation schedules, each schedule comprising a plurality of transportation movements. The method further comprises identifying an available movement network comprising portions of transportation schedules having open capacity, each portion of a transportation schedule having open capacity being a potential leg of a path from the origin location to the destination location; determining potential solutions for transporting the load from the origin location to the destination location by combining one or more legs to determine a path of open capacity movements from the origin location to at least part way to the destination location; and providing one or more potential solutions for display via a user interface.

PlanningEvolutionary computationG06Q 10/08G01C 21/3407G06Q 10/08355G06Q 10/1097

AI classification

Planning0.97
Evolutionary computation0.78
Knowledge representation0.10
AI hardware0.01
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.

assignment · 524410638

Assignors

MOHR, DOUGLAS K., CELMER, ANTHONY MICHAEL, MCGOWAN, KRISTINA M., WARE, KEITH ALAN, MURPHY, JAMES, CHENG, CHI-YIN, MITCHELL, LEE ANTHONY, MYERS, JESSICA

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