Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for generating logistics zones

An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

• automatically generate one or more logistics zones at least partially in response to receipt of an indication of a lasso gesture selection, via a user interface, of a geographic area indicated in visible indicia of an electronic map displayed via a display device of the apparatus, the lasso gesture selection being indicated by an indicator, at the user interface, that surrounds the geographic area;
• based at least in part on the lasso gesture selection, automatically causing generation, at the user interface, of one or more nodes for presentation within the indicator, wherein no nodes are presented at the user interface in any area outside of the indicator each of the one or more nodes is a visual indicator within the electronic map indicative of a connection point between one or more street segments;
• generating a plurality of offsets for each of the one or more street segments based on assigning an offset distance from the one or more street segments;
• in response to the generation of the plurality of offsets, causing generation, at the user interface and within the indicator, of a plurality of corresponding offset points that define the plurality of offsets, each offset point, of the plurality of offset points, being located outside of a corresponding portion of the one or more street segments of the user interface based on the offset distance;
• based at least in part on causing a connection, at the user interface, of a portion of the plurality of corresponding offset points, automatically causing generation of one or more indicators representing one or more logistics zones, a boundary of the one or more indicators being defined, at the user interface, by the portion of the plurality of corresponding offset points;
• generate, in each of the one or more logistics zones of the electronic map of the user interface, a geofenced right zone on a right side of corresponding street segments and a geofenced left zone on a left side of the corresponding street segments;
• generate a travel route for a vehicle to travel for delivery or pickup of items within at least an area corresponding to the geofenced right zone and the geofenced left zone based in part on a determined trace order specifying a sequential order in which to travel within the geofenced right zone and the geofenced left zone;
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• drag or drop, within the user interface, each of the one or more logistic zones to data indicating the travel route, the drag or drop being indicative of assigning a driver to the vehicle for the delivery or pickup of the items, along the travel route, within the geofenced right zone and the geofenced left zone.

A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising:

• program instructions configured to cause presentation of an electronic map of a user interface;
• program instructions configured to receive an indication that a user has provided a lasso gesture around a geographical area within the electronic map of the user interface;
• program instructions configured to in response to the receiving of the indication, cause generation, at the user interface, of an indicator representing a geofence around the geographical area;
• program instructions configured to generate, at the user interface, one or more nodes for presentation within the indicator representing the geofence based at least in part on the lasso gesture, wherein no nodes are presented at the user interface in any area outside of the indicator representing the geofence, each of the one or more nodes is a visual indicator within the electronic map indicative of a connection point between one or more street segments;
• program instructions configured to in response to the generating of the one or more nodes, generate, at the user interface, a plurality of offset points based on assigning a predefined offset distance from the one or more street segments, each offset point, of the plurality of offset points, being located, at the user interface, outside of a corresponding street segment of the one or more street segments;
• program code instructions configured to based at least in part on causing a visible connection, at the user interface, of the plurality of offset points automatically generate, at the user interface, one or more logistics zones, each boundary of each logistics zone being defined, at the user interface, by a respective set of offset points, of the plurality of offset points;
• in response to the automatically generating the one or more logistics zones, program code instructions configured to generate, at the user interface and in each logistics zone of the one or more logistics zones, a geofenced right zone on a right side of a corresponding street segment and a geofenced left zone on a left side of the corresponding street segment;
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• based at least in part on the generating of the geofenced left zone and the geofenced right zone, automatically generating, a travel route for a vehicle to travel for delivery or pickup of one or more items within an area corresponding to the geofenced right zone and the geofenced left zone.