OR/MS Today, February 2010
Vehicle Routing Software Survey
Table 14
| Product | How has economic downturn affected market: | New features that address sustainability/green requirements: |
| Accellos One Optimize | greater demand for SaaS | |
| Direct Route | Added to drive for reducing costs | Idle time/windshield time reductions |
| DISC | Not significantly because companies still want to optimiset | Optimisation of fuel usage (minimisation of distance and altitude variations) |
| DRTraCK | More focus on reduced costs | reduced dirving distance |
| IBM ILOG Transportation Analyst | Ability to calculate CO2 emmissions and perform scenaro analysis. | |
| JOpt.AAS | built in carbon emission assessent features | |
| JOpt.SDK | integrated carbon emission assessment features | |
| MOBi | Not significantly because companies still want to optimiset | Remote working, ability to work from home. |
| Mobile Asset Route Optimization | Ability to specifiy soft preferences for certain vehicle types | |
| Optrak | More pressure on transport operations to run more effici | Improved optimisation for better, more accurate routing |
| Paragon Routing and Scheduling Optimizer | More companies are using Paragon software to improve e | Paragon Carbon Minimizer = carbon-efficient & cost-effective routes for truck fleets |
| PlanOp | ||
| QMms - Quant Methods for Management Science | No effect | |
| REACT | Not significantly because companies still want to optimiset | Minimisation of idle time for vehicles and distance reduction - dynamic backhauling |
| Roadnet Anywhere | Increased need for methods to create accruate plans and | Reports avaialble on carbon emissions |
| Roadnet Transportation Suite | Increased need for methods to create accruate plans and | Reports avaialble on carbon emissions as a result of route plans |
| Route Planning Suite | Customers and prospects are increasingly turning to Soft | The solution has always focused upon reducing carbon emissions throug |
| StreetSync Basic | ||
| StreetSync Desktop | ||
| TruckStops | Yes | |
| TruckStops (UK) | Yes | |
| WebSTARS 5.2 | a little | automatic calculation of CO2 emission |
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