DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

Distribución de mercancías, sistema de ayuda a la toma de decisiones, problemas generales de planificación de rutas, algoritmo de optimización, técnicas metaheurísticas, freight distribution, decision support system, general vehicle routing problem, optimization algorithm, metaheuristic techniques.

Article type:

ARTICULO DE INVESTIGACION / RESEARCH ARTICLE

Section:

RESEARCH ARTICLES

ABSTRACT:
This article presents an innovative and smart decision support system for companies dedicated to the freight distribution. The computer solution allows to manage and schedule transport routes of goods based on a geographic information system that enables the calculation real of distances between two or more nodes of the network.

With the growth of cities, the loading and unloading of goods is a priority function whose operation depends to a large extent, the effectiveness and efficiency of the implemented technology systems. The current operations of loading and unloading in the city is valued, in general terms, as unsustainably high costs for environmental, social and economic behavior for the whole city. That is why, today, the Intelligent Transportation Systems in urban environments Smart are experienced a remarkable boom in recent years.

The system developed is an innovative and intuitive application which enables an easy learning of the system’s functionalities and may be simply adapted to any case study defined by the user.

For the resolution of the problem, the system incorporates an optimization algorithm based on metaheuristic techniques taking into account the characteristics encountered in real life with the objective of reduce total costs of distribution and improve the efficiency of companies. This algorithm stems from intensive research activities devoted to urban freight distribution during the whole professional history of researchers.