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Vehicles route planning in large transportation companies, where drivers are workers, usually takes place on the basis of experience or intuition of the employees. Because of the cost and environmental protection, it is important to save fuel, thus planning routes in an optimal way. In this article an example of the problem is presented solving delivery vans route planning taking into account the distance and travel time within the constraints of vehicle capacities, restrictions on working time of drivers and having varying degrees of movement. An artificial immune system was used for the calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Waste collection problems are one of the most important logistic tasks to solve. The paper deals with the optimization of vehicle routes, which is one of the ways of reducing costs of waste collection. In this paper it was formulated the problem of optimization for a single vehicle. This task can be reduced to the Euler's problem in the mathematical sense. The task was resolved using artificial immune systems. The methods have been adapted to solve real problems of selective waste collection on a small settlement. The solutions were discussed. It was described further plans for the development of methods for waste collection needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rational management of transport has a major impact on the cost of the business. The starting point for this can be a forecast of demand for the products. This paper presents the process of planning of transportation of shipments based on the forecast of the orders. The monthly quantity of shipments during the 36 months was analysed. A periodic variation of this quantity was observed. The forecast for the next two months was determined using a triple exponential smoothing method. Parameters of the method were determined analytically and using artificial immune systems. In the latter case the smoothing constant and the initial values of the model were determined by optimizing the root mean square error (RMSE) "ex-post". The results were subsequently compared. A smaller error was obtained using artificial immune systems. Then the demand for transport was calculated basing on the forecast quantity of shipments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes an application of an evolutionary algorithm and an artificial immune systems to solve a problem of scheduling an optimal route for waste disposal garbage trucks in its daily operation. Problem of an optimisation is formulated and solved using both methods. The results are presented for an area in one of the Polish cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]