What does a bee’s “waggle dance” have to do with planning optimal delivery routes? For those of us who came up with the answer “almost certainly nothing,” that might explain why we’re not the brains ...

As retail operations grow increasingly complex, delivery planning becomes a crucial part of the entire logistics supply chain. While many companies have implemented transportation-management systems, ...

One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of the problem is when the route traverses a changing network - ...

Dynamic models of the behavior of automobile drivers in choosing routes through urban transportation networks are required for the design and operation of intelligent transportation systems generally, ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 97: Research, Monitoring, and Engineering of Coastal, Port, and Marine Systems (WINTER 2019), pp. 155-161 (7 pages) Aiming at the problems of low ...

Spring is here, and a number of families are plotting road trips for school break. Randy Olson, a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University and a self-proclaimed "data tinkerer," believes he's ...

After 10 years of research and development, United Parcel Service Inc. said it is about to officially launch an automated system that uses algorithms to devise optimal routes for its drivers. It says ...