Transport Dispatch System for Route Selection

A system for identifying a shipping route for a total quantity of goods to a plurality of railway stations comprising at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to perform operations comprising:

• determining the total quantity of goods to be shipped to the plurality of railway stations;
• identifying a plurality of requests indicating which portion of the total quantity of goods is to be shipped to each of the plurality of railway stations associated with each individual request of the plurality of requests;
• determining distances between each of the plurality of railway stations and a dispatch station;
• providing, via a user interface, a display indicating the individual request from each of the plurality of railway stations for their respective portion of the total quantity of goods;
• receiving, via the user interface, a command for identifying the shipping route for providing the portion of the total quantity of goods to the plurality of railway stations based on a user-provided metric;
• identifying a plurality of variations of the shipping route, each variation indicating a different order of the plurality of railway stations in which to ship the portion of the total quantity of goods so as to fulfill the plurality of requests;
• computing the user-provided metric for each of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• identifying a first variation from the plurality of variations of the shipping route for which the computed user-provided metric is lower than a remainder of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• and
• providing, via the user interface, the first variation of the shipping route indicating an order in which each of the plurality of railway stations receives its portion of the total quantity of goods based on its request.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium for identifying a shipping route for a total quantity of goods to a plurality of railway stations, the non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

• determining the total quantity of goods to be shipped to the plurality of railway stations;
• identifying a plurality of requests indicating which portion of the total quantity of goods is to be shipped to each of the plurality of railway stations associated with each individual request of the plurality of requests;
• determining distances between each of the plurality of railway stations and a dispatch station;
• providing, via a user interface, a display indicating the individual request from each of the plurality of railway stations for their respective portion of the total quantity of goods;
• receiving, via the user interface, a command for identifying the shipping route for providing the portion of the total quantity of goods to the plurality of railway stations based on a user-provided metric;
• identifying a plurality of variations of the shipping route, each variation indicating a different order of the plurality of railway stations in which to ship the portion of the total quantity of goods so as to fulfill the plurality of requests;
• computing the user-provided metric for each of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• identifying a first variation from the plurality of variations of the shipping route for which the computed user-provided metric is lower than a remainder of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• and
• providing, via the user interface, the first variation of the shipping route indicating an order in which each of the plurality of railway stations receives its portion of the total quantity of goods based on its request.