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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