Method for optimizing a transportation scheme

A usability, vehicle technology, applied in data processing applications, instrumentation, forecasting, etc., that solves the problem of not properly reflecting the trade-off between contract and spot ships, not evaluating long and short voyages, and not properly representing ships Issues such as ship economic impact

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-04-18
EXXON RES & ENG CO
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[0011] Furthermore, none of the above work provides a sea transport program that optimally maximizes the total net surplus (as opposed to merely minimizing cost) for transport schemes
The cost minimization approach alone does not always provide the fullest results, as it does not properly represent the economic impact of ship assignment decisions, does not properly reflect the trade-off between contract and spot ship use, and did not rate long and short voyages on a consistent basis

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[0026] All words in this specification are intended to have their broadest ordinary meanings. For further clarity, the conventional meanings of some terms used in this specification are set forth below.

[0027] "Allocation" means assigning available goods to various demand locations based on some preference (eg, economic) in order to satisfy destination requirements while satisfying existing constraints and limitations.

[0028] "Blending Ratio" means the set of constraints that limit the mixing (or blending) of supply grades of bulk materials (e.g., crude oil) that, when delivered on a single vehicle, are critical for demand location segregation (e.g., port segregation ) is acceptable.

[0029] "Bulk material" means any material that is unbound and substantially liquid when loaded; in other words, it is in loose, unencapsulated form. Examples of bulk materials include coal, grain and petroleum products.

[0030] "Cargo" means any product or material...

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A method and apparatus for optimal transporting of cargo is provided. The method includes optimizing a plurality of transportation decisions and mechanically transporting cargo through movement of a plurality of vehicles in accordance with a set of optimized transportation decisions. The decisions include transportation routes and schedules for the transportation vehicles, allocation of cargo to be transported to one or more demand locations by the transportation vehicles, nomination of cargo pickup by the transportation vehicles from the one or more supply locations, the use of specialized transportation locations, and vehicle assignments for each of the transportation vehicles.; The set of decisions is optimized by collecting data relating to the various transportation decisions, using the data collected as part of a mixed integer linear programming model, and obtaining a solution to the model to arrive at a set of optimized transportation decisions.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Art [0002] This application claims the benefit of Provisional US Patent Application No. 61 / 175,718 (filed May 5, 2009), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. This application is also related to U.S. Patent Application No. 12 / 285,651, filed October 12, 2008, entitled "System for Optimizing Transportation Scheduling," which in turn is related to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. .60 / 996,188. This application is also related to U.S. Patent Application No. 12 / 292,600, filed November 21, 2008, entitled "System for Optimizing Bulk Allocation, Transportation and Blending," which in turn is related to U.S. Patent Application No. 12 / 292,600, filed December 21, 2007, of the same title Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 008,581. Each of these applications is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. technical field [0003] The present invention is directed to a method for determining an optimal transport solut...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q10/08G06Q50/30
CPCG06Q10/047G06Q10/08355G06Q10/087
Inventor G·R·科西斯K·C·弗曼M·奥斯默J·宋P·H·沃里克T·A·惠顿L·蔡F·黎
Owner EXXON RES & ENG CO
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