Abstract: A computer, for planning moves of freight automatically receives a plan containing a number of trips to be performed to move freight using vehicles, and partially releases only a portion of the plan for execution instead of releasing the entire plan. The plan portion that is released includes a subset of trips that are selected by the computer from among all trips in the entire plan. Thereafter, the computer simply repeats the just-described acts. Iteratively releasing portions of a plan allows the computer to be instructed to release early certain trips that are satisfactory. Trips that are sub-optimal are re-generated in a next version of the plan, based on changes in orders in the interim. The computer may also be instructed to release a trip even if sub-optimal, if its time-to-departure becomes less than an advance notice needed by a truckload service that is to execute the trip.

Abstract: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with facilitating intelligent navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a control element configured to facilitate closing a window and identifying a GUI navigation target. The example system may also include a top-level object configured to selectively close an open window descended from a top-level window upon determining that the top-level window is being closed.

Abstract: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with facilitating intelligent navigation in a graphical user interface (GUI) are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a control element configured to facilitate closing a window and identifying a GUI navigation target. The example system may also include a top-level object configured to selectively close an open window descended from a top-level window upon determining that the top-level window is being closed.

Abstract: Systems, methodologies, and other embodiments associated with a transportation planning system having an interactive map-based user interface are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method may include accessing a transportation plan having elements like actionable loads and displaying a map of a region related to the transportation plan. The method may also include providing a user interface object for accessing elements of the transportation plan and establishing a dedicated connection between the user interface object and a transportation plan data server. The method may also include displaying an interactive graphical image associated with the user interface object and receiving user inputs concerning a transportation plan element(s) having a dedicated connection to the user interface object.

Abstract: A computer, for planning moves of freight automatically receives a plan containing a number of trips to be performed to move freight using vehicles, and partially releases only a portion of the plan for execution instead of releasing the entire plan. The plan portion that is released includes a subset of trips that are selected by the computer from among all trips in the entire plan. Thereafter, the computer simply repeats the just-described acts. Iteratively releasing portions of a plan allows the computer to be instructed to release early certain trips that are satisfactory. Trips that are sub-optimal are re-generated in a next version of the plan, based on changes in orders in the interim. The computer may also be instructed to release a trip even if sub-optimal, if its time-to-departure becomes less than an advance notice needed by a truckload service that is to execute the trip.

Abstract: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with manipulating a transportation plan based on system assisted exception resolutions are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method embodiment includes accessing transportation orders and an actionable plan of loads. The method may also include identifying planning exceptions, identifying candidate planning actions for resolving the exceptions, and providing data concerning the impact that resolving the exception using the candidate planning action will have.

Abstract: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with transportation planning with multi-level firming are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method embodiment includes accessing transportation planning elements and a transportation planning model. The method may also include identifying loads that satisfy orders in the transportation planning elements according to constraints in the transportation planning model and then applying multi-level firming designations to transportation planning elements related to the identified loads. The method may also include identifying additional loads based, at least in part, on the multi-level firming designations. The method may output an actionable plan of loads stored, for example, on a computer-readable medium.