Demand Responsive Transport, Paratransit
Fynbus is the regional bus authority at Fyn and is owned by 10 municipalities. Fynbus offers Demand Responsive Transport (Flextrafik) that is an option for citizens who are unable to use ordinary public transport to get to school, an institution or treatment.
The operation of the busses is handled by subcontractors, while Fynbus takes care of the scheduling and planning of the 500.000 annual trips.
The scheduling is performed using Rapidis Logistics Planner, which will ensure that the schedules will comply to complex demands and constraints within Demand Responsive Transport. At the same time, the scheduling process ensures that the resulting routes will be as cost efficient as possible.
With a vast amount of daily trips, there will be daily changes in the passengers need for transportation.
Using Rapidis Logistics Planner it only takes minutes for Fynbus to rerun and update the schedules with the changes incorporated.
Sweco Renoweb solution for Waste Management
Sweco, an engineering company with offices in several countries, offer the software suite Renoweb that handles all aspects of waste management for cities, municipalities and contractors. Even costumers and citizens can communicate by using the platform.
Sweco has integrated the Rapidis Logistics Planner with the Renoweb modules that handles city bins (with sensors) special- and commercial collections. Now the Renoweb users can:
- Select addresses to collect from
- Create and optimize routes
- Push routes to trucks
For residential waste collection Rapidis has calculated and optimized routes for entire cities and municipalities. Subsequently Sweco has imported these routes into Renoweb.
Route Planning for Residential Waste Collection
AVV collects residential waste from all households in the municipalities of Hjørring and Brønderslev in Denmark. In total 40.000 addresses are served by AVV for residential waste collection.
Rapids has assisted AVV with planning and optimization of the many routes ensuring that the waste collection is done as efficient as possible. Routes and route sequences are optimized so both drive time and KM are minimized for the fleet of dumpster trucks; as a result both the fleet size and total costs like fuel consumption and carbon footprint are minimized.
The Rapidis delivery is a series of overview maps, address lists and detailed maps for every route together with many informative key figures. Finally the routes are imported to the Renoweb solution (delivered by Sweco) that is the Waste Management IT solution used by many cities and municipalities in Denmark.
Newspaper Delivery Routes
The system produces detailed routes based on a GIS road network and address data. In order to handle large areas the system automatically groups addresses into larger segments before starting the optimization calculations. This lowers the calculation time and makes it possible to handle large areas at a time, containing hundreds of routes.
On the technical side, the system is based on the Rapidis Logistics Planner – a server application, offering:
- A web-service based programming interface
- Job-queue functionality and multiple concurrent calculations
- Efficient calculations utilizing multi-core CPU architectures for greater performance
- The server architecture makes it possible to easily handle multiple users requiring concurrent calculations