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The Computer Journal 1967 10(1):10-13; doi:10.1093/comjnl/10.1.10
© 1967 by British Computer Society
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A computer application to a transport scheduling problem

H. G. M. Pullen and M. H. J. Webb *

The preparation of van drivers' duty schedules for the bulk conveyance of mail in the Cental London area is described. The method employed includes a heuristic routine for reducing the idle and empty-running time between jobs.

This paper was presented to the British Joint Computer Conference in May 1966. Since that time there have been a number of changes in the operational requirements and in conditions, not least among them being the effects of the ever-widening restriction of parking facilities in London. The scheme is now based on the more sophisticated Mark II system described in the paper.


* H. G. M. Pullen is with the General Post Office.

§ M. H. J. Webb was with English Electric Leo-Marconi Computers Ltd. and is now at the London School of Economics and Political Science.


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