During the last years, the transportation management process of the Base Business Unit Wholesale of Medicines of Pinar de Río has affected the operational planning of the loads and their transportation routes. These affectations are related to the empirical design of the routes, affecting the prolongation of the transportation cycles and the deterioration of their indicators. In this sense, the general objective of the study was to design a system of variable transportation routes supported in Geographic Information Systems for the optimization of said process. For this, documentary analysis, direct observation and statistical analysis were used as fundamental research methods and techniques, also using computer tools for the statistical processing of information and Geographic Information Systems in solving transport optimization problems. During the development of this research the methodology is established to determine the current state of the process under study, analyzing from the progression of the behavior of its management indicators. Subsequently, the parameters and target values are preset to measure the effectiveness of the routing system proposed in its test phase. As a result of the implementation of the transportation route system, positive results are determined in each of the parameters, obtaining significant savings in fuel consumption, distances traveled and in service times, directly affecting the decrease in operating costs of the company's transportation process.


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    Title :

    Design of a variable transportation routes system based in geographic information systems




    Publication date :

    2019



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown





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