Methods and models for building a logistics navigator for freight transportation

Abstract

Obtaining the optimal route for cargo transportation according to specified criteria is a laborious process for both shippers and forwarders, as it involves building routes, analyzing the route in accordance with specified criteria, calculating the final cost in accordance with the tariffs of carriers and transport zones, customs duties, additional services. Today there is no software solution that allows you to build an optimal logistics route using various modes of transport, as well as get all possible route options according to specified criteria. The article proposes the creation of a logistics navigator for freight transportation, defines its model in the form of a «black box», describes the input and output parameters of the navigator, defines the data that make up the reference information of the navigator necessary for analysis and decision-making, and defines the algorithm of the navigator. In conclusion, the advantages obtained from the implementation of the logistics navigator in the context of current problems and such promising solutions as the implementation of intelligent analysis of the flows of transport corridors by type of transport and cargo, forecasting the loading of infrastructure facilities, expanding the functionality of the logistics navigator to collect analytics on the state of transport infrastructure facilities are formulated. authorities. The regulations and reference books regulating the process of cargo transportation for aviation, sea, rail and road modes of transport, classifiers in various automated systems for working with transportation documents are studied, the classification of objects of regulatory and reference information of the logistics navigator is made, the context of the application of various objects of regulatory and reference information is described. As a result of the study, the structure of the regulatory and reference information of the logistics navigator was built, the logic for solving the problem of finding the optimal route and calculating the cost of transportation was determined.