Transportation planning with rule-based release of trips for execution

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions to plan movement of freight using vehicles, wherein said instructions are at least to:

• receive a plurality of trips to be performed to move freight using vehicles;
• wherein each trip comprises a group of orders to move goods by a single vehicle performing said each trip;
• dynamically construct a query to be issued to a database, to evaluate at least two conditions in a rule in a plurality of rules by concatenating at least said two conditions in forming said rule;
• wherein said at least two conditions comprise a first condition and a second condition and the rule comprises a Boolean operator between the first condition and the second condition and said Boolean operator is concatenated in forming said rule, by said instructions to dynamically construct the query;
• and
• release a subset of trips automatically selected at least partially by execution of the query, from among said plurality of trips;
• wherein at least said subset of trips are created prior to said execution of said query.

An apparatus for planning movement of freight using vehicles, the apparatus comprising:

• means for receiving in a computer, a plurality of trips to be performed to move freight using vehicles;
• wherein each trip comprises a group of orders to move goods by a single vehicle performing said each trip;
• means for constructing a query to be issued to a database, to evaluate at least two conditions in a rule in a plurality of rules by concatenating at least said two conditions in forming said rule;
• wherein said at least two conditions comprise a first condition and a second condition and the rule comprises a Boolean operator between the first condition and the second condition and said Boolean operator is concatenated in forming said rule, by said instructions to dynamically construct the query;
• and
• means for releasing a subset of trips automatically selected at least partially by execution of the query, from among said plurality of trips;
• wherein at least said subset of trips are created prior to said execution of said query by said means for releasing.