On 27-02-14 16:55, Marcus Uerlings wrote:
Hi
I´ve download Optaplanner a couple of months ago and found it
fantastic!! Congrats to Geoffrey!
I´m not a programmer, but a logistic consultant to a non-governmental
organization (NGO) of recycling products and like to give my "cent of
contribuition" if it applies.
Intresting use case :)
I love that fact that NGO's are taking advantage of this software too.
Do note that the examples/docs are aimed at Java programmers (because
any real-world application requires customization to the actual
organization that wants to use it), OptaPlanner doesn't try to be a
generic out-of-the-box VRP solution (but something like that can be
build downstream upon OptaPlanner).
1. Distance Calculation:
I´ve learned from a person that works with georeference that a good
aproximation in calculating distances from latitude and longitude is
to multiply the Euclidean result by "111.1".
This "magic number" will give the approximate distance in kilometers
and then the final soft score will show the minimum distance in "km"
and not in "fuel" (although they are related).
=====
public int getMilliDistance(Location location) {
( ... )
(latitudeDifference * latitudeDifference) +
(longitudeDifference * longitudeDifference));
return (int) (distance * 1000.0 * 111.1);
}
=====
2. Heteregenous vehicles
Many times a fleet is made of different vehicles, different sizes,
capacity and one of the most important, different mileages (in
Km/litre or litres/100 km).
How can I put it in vehicle parameters, together with capacity and
took into account in score calculation?
Doing so, the score would be calculated as minimum(Distance*mileage).
That requires
Java programming, but it's not that much work:
- add the fields on the class Vehicle
- add the fields in the xml input
- use the fields in the score DRL
3. Real example
I fed real data into Optaplanner VCRP and plot the results in Googlemaps.
Due to one way streets, the result does not look efficient to the
drivers of the NGO.
Is there a way to use an internet routing service, like Googlemaps in
Optaplanner?
If it is possible, can someone help me coding this? :)
Peter Karich was recently
planning to combine OptaPlanner with
Graphhopper (both open source) to accomplish exactly that.
I am not sure if he follows this list, but might be interesting to open
a conversation with him.
Regards from Brazil
Thank you in advance
Marcus Uerlings
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