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Glossary

Booking

A request for a passenger for a ride or a job order to have goods moved

Compound zone

A zones for which enter or exit could require some additional time.

DFR

Digital Fixed Route

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

Group

Grouping of nodes or bookingg

JIT

Just In Time

Node

A node representing a waypoint, drop off, pick up, warehouse, bus stop points.

Offer

An outcome of optimization process establishing a proposal to execute a booking that includes vehicle, time and other parameters

OMS

Order management system

On Demand

On Demand realtime rerouting

Passenger

An individual travelling from one point to another

Simulation

A container respresenting all data needed to run optimization of routes or vehicle allocations for a certain period of time

Slack

Slack refers to the unused time at a particular location

Vehicle capacity

Amount of load a vehicle can move

Vehicle characteristics

Vehicle attributes used as constrains