Abstract: A transportation planning portion formulates a transportation plan on the basis of transportation conditions of the transportation plan, which is a formulation target, past transportation conditions, and weights of the important achievement evaluation indicators of actual transportation records and an indicator estimation portion estimates weights of important achievement evaluation indicators relative to the past transportation conditions by comparing values of the important achievement evaluation indicators calculated on the basis of the transportation plan formulated by the transportation planning portion with values of the important achievement evaluation indicators of past actual transportation records calculated from the past actual transportation records; and an indicator setting portion that identifies, from among a plurality of the past transportation conditions, past transportation conditions with the highest similarity to the transportation conditions of the transportation plan, which is the formul

Abstract: Battery depletion can be avoided and the supply of grid power is stabilized while enhancing a renewable energy utilization rate. A charge/discharge planning apparatus creates a renewable energy power generation amount fluctuation scenario with a changed power generation amount of renewable energy, and a grid power fluctuation scenario with a changed demand for grid power on the basis of at least one of weather forecast information and grid power demand prediction information; executes a simulation regarding each of the plurality of proposed charge/discharge plans under at least one of the renewable energy power generation amount fluctuation scenario and the grid power fluctuation scenario and calculates a charge/discharge plan evaluation value based on an execution result of the simulation; and adopts any one of the plurality of proposed charge/discharge plans on the basis of the calculated charge/discharge plan evaluation value so that a preset constraint condition will be satisfied.

Abstract: There is provided a relay transportation planning apparatus and method capable of devising a relay transportation plan(s) which enhances package transportation efficiency. A transportation plan is created by forming one or a plurality of transportation groups by gathering packages which have an at least partly overlapping transportation route and share a common time slot for transportation via the transportation route, based on package information, vehicle information, and driver information and allocating a transportation vehicle and a driver to each of the created transportation groups, wherein the transportation planning apparatus is designed to allocate a plurality of transportation vehicles which perform platooning or a transportation vehicle for towing a plurality of towed vehicles to the transportation group(s) when necessary.

Abstract: A schedule planning apparatus plans, based on a plurality of parameter values, a schedule combination including a transportation schedule and a charging schedule, evaluates, for each of the one or the plurality of planned schedule combinations, efficiency of transportation and easiness of schedule correction, and outputs information based on at least a part of a schedule combination in which the efficiency and the correction easiness are relatively high. For each of one or a plurality of kinds of constraint parameter value combinations, the constraint parameter value combination is a combination including a plurality of constraint parameter values respectively corresponding to the plurality of constraint parameter names. A constraint parameter value of at least one constraint parameter name affects the correction easiness.

Abstract: A plurality of combinations of transportation schedule proposals of loads in which the loads to be transported are transported without the transportation vehicles running out of electricity and charging schedule proposals of the transportation vehicles are generated based on an original transportation schedule and a remaining charging amount of each of the present transportation vehicles. At least a delivery delay of the loads is evaluated for each of the generated combinations of the transportation schedule proposals and the charging schedule proposals and a combination of the transportation schedule proposal and the charging schedule proposal is selected based on an evaluation result.

Abstract: A transportation planning system includes a control section and a storage section. The storage section retains cargo information, vehicle information, location information, movement time period information, and storage location information. The control section divides a region including a plurality of locations into a plurality of divisional regions, selects one or more of the locations as a candidate for a storage location of cargo, and generates a plurality of transportation schedules each including the candidate for a storage location and a storage period. The control section determines that, in a case where an amount of cargo to be stored does not exceed the capacity of the storage location, the plan of the candidate for is reasonable, and calculates a transportation cost in one or more of the transportation schedules for which it has been determined that the plan of the candidate storage is reasonable.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to create a delivery plan in consideration of loadability for a package when the package has a new shape or a shape of the package changes during a delivery process. A delivery plan creating system includes: a stowage rule generation unit that generates stowage rules using delivery performance data including records of a type of a delivery vehicle and a type of a package to be delivered by the delivery vehicle and stores the stowage rules in a stowage rule storage unit; a delivery plan calculation unit that estimates a scheme of the package to be loaded on the delivery vehicle and creates a delivery plan using the scheme when the package to be loaded on each delivery vehicle in the scheme matches one of the stowage rules; and a display unit that displays the delivery plan.

Abstract: A delivery plan creating device includes: a delivery request acquisition unit that acquires a delivery change request; a change instruction deadline calculation unit that calculates, based on a delivery time range contained in the delivery change request, a change instruction deadline representing a deadline that can instruct a change in a delivery plan; a storage unit that stores conditional calculation record information in which a delivery condition set at a time of creating an executed delivery plan is in association with calculation time required for creating the executed delivery plan; a search unit that selects a delivery condition set similar to the delivery change request from the conditional calculation record information; and a calculation starting time point calculation unit that calculates a calculation starting time point by counting the calculation time in association with the selected delivery condition set backward from the change instruction deadline.

Abstract: A transportation planning system provides a transportation plan for reducing at least a plan change amount in response to a variation in a transportation amount and a change in a transportation resource. A storage unit stores transportation amount information on an article based on an order, transportation resource information on the article, and transportation resource arrangement plan information indicating a preset transportation resource arrangement plan.

Abstract: A delivery plan creating device includes: a delivery request acquisition unit that acquires a delivery change request; a change instruction deadline calculation unit that calculates, based on a delivery time range contained in the delivery change request, a change instruction deadline representing a deadline that can instruct a change in a delivery plan; a storage unit that stores conditional calculation record information in which a delivery condition set at a time of creating an executed delivery plan is in association with calculation time required for creating the executed delivery plan; a search unit that selects a delivery condition set similar to the delivery change request from the conditional calculation record information; and a calculation starting time point calculation unit that calculates a calculation starting time point by counting the calculation time in association with the selected delivery condition set backward from the change instruction deadline.