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<blockquote data-quote="OLDMAN3" data-source="post: 1745833"><p>In reality "the algorithm" is actually 3 (Traveling Salesman, Regular, and Baseline). They produce not one, not 3, but a myriad of "solutions" depending upon which of the 3 basic algorithms they decide to input, if they use clusters, and at what % they assign the importance of both AM and PM trace. There are other factors as well, but to say the algorithm works is to fundamentally misunderstand how ORION is implemented.</p><p></p><p>Of the hundreds of routes dispatched in my area (city, suburban, rural, industrial, retail, residential etc.) not one is dispatched using the "traveling salesman" algorithm, which would in theory produce the solution with the fewest miles traveled. The traveling salesman algorithm has historically been unworkable in real life applications. It is also shown itself unworkable for UPS routes.</p><p></p><p>The result of all this money spent is a system that a driver can easily beat using his own knowledge (If he so chooses), with less effort than trying to make ORION work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OLDMAN3, post: 1745833"] In reality "the algorithm" is actually 3 (Traveling Salesman, Regular, and Baseline). They produce not one, not 3, but a myriad of "solutions" depending upon which of the 3 basic algorithms they decide to input, if they use clusters, and at what % they assign the importance of both AM and PM trace. There are other factors as well, but to say the algorithm works is to fundamentally misunderstand how ORION is implemented. Of the hundreds of routes dispatched in my area (city, suburban, rural, industrial, retail, residential etc.) not one is dispatched using the "traveling salesman" algorithm, which would in theory produce the solution with the fewest miles traveled. The traveling salesman algorithm has historically been unworkable in real life applications. It is also shown itself unworkable for UPS routes. The result of all this money spent is a system that a driver can easily beat using his own knowledge (If he so chooses), with less effort than trying to make ORION work. [/QUOTE]
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