Spatio-temporal approach to scheduling field operations

A computer program product for creating a spatio-temporal schedule, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to receive a set of available work crews and a set of workorders to be scheduled;
• computer readable program code configured to sequence the set of workorders, wherein each workorder of the set of workorders is associated with a geographic location, a start time and an end time;
• and
• computer readable program code configured to iterate through the set of available work crews, assigning a plurality of workorders of the set of workorders fully allocating a current crew before selecting a next crew, until at least one of all work crews are fully allocated and all workorders are assigned, wherein the assignment of workorders for a given work crew generates a route comprising the plurality of workorders.