Reasoning elements for a vehicle routing system

  • Authors:

  • Edilson Ferneda;Bernardo A. Mello;Janaína A. S. Diniz;Adelaide Figueiredo

  • Affiliations:

  • Graduate Program on Knowledge Management & IT, Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil;Physic Department, University of Brasília, Brazil;Undergraduate Course of Agribusiness Management, University of Brasilia, Brazil;Graduate Program on Knowledge Management & IT, Catholic University of Brasília, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part III
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Logistic processes are a challenge to collective organizations of rural producers. The lack of technological support in those processes is an obstacle for the maintenance of the small producers in the distribution channels. A research theme is the adaptation of some logistic models normally adequate for urban reality to the context of small rural organizations. This adaptation seems pertinent, since some particularities of this kind of organization can be associated to complex problems related to the supply chain. In the case presented in this work, the first stage in the development of the system consisted in defining the main problems related to the inefficiency of the collection and distribution processes. Costs concerning the logistics processes were also measured. In this paper we propose the reasoning elements regarding a routing system and methods for cost estimation adapted to small rural organizations.