Transport dispatch system for multiple delivery jobs

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, wherein the total quantity of goods exceeds a capacity of a single train that is to deliver the total quantity of goods 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;
• determining that at a first station and a second station of the plurality of railway stations are in a same direction from the dispatch station, and that a third station of the plurality stations is in different directions from the dispatch station relative to the first station and the second station;
• 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;
• identifying a user-provided metric for selecting one of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• computing the user-provided metric for each of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• selecting 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 the first variation of the shipping route to the dispatch station, wherein a train tasked to deliver the goods is loaded in accordance with the first variation.

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, wherein the total quantity of goods exceeds a capacity of a single train that is to deliver the total quantity of goods 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;
• determining that at a first station and a second station of the plurality of railway stations are in a same direction from the dispatch station, and that a third station of the plurality stations is in different directions from the dispatch station relative to the first station and the second station;
• 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;
• identifying a user-provided metric for selecting one of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• computing the user-provided metric for each of the plurality of variations of the shipping route;
• selecting 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 the first variation of the shipping route to the dispatch station, wherein a train tasked to deliver the goods is loaded in accordance with the first variation.