Drivers Working Hours Standardization within Planning of Local Deliveries for Cities with Heavy Traffic
Proceedings of the 49th RTU Scientific Conference on Economics and Entrepreneurship (SCEE'2008) 2008
Pāvels Patļins

The goal of the paper’s research is to investigate drivers working hours standardization opportunities within planning of local deliveries for cities with heavy traffic. Commodities distribution planning is a complicated process especially for big cities due to loading of roads. It is necessary to use both vehicles and staff by optimal way to minimize deliveries costs. The object of investigation is delivery processes’ time. Often companies use over vehicles because may not satisfy their customers with less number of vehicles. If an enterprise has additional vehicles, it needs also to hire more drivers. Consequently, company’s costs increase, but profit decreases. Drivers working hours standardization is also important because it is indispensable to delivery production to each customer timely. When customers require a small production quantity, forwarder should to combine many customers’ orders within one circular route served by the particular vehicle. Actually, using drivers working hours standardization, forwarder solves two main tasks – firstly, uses own resources by optimal way; secondly, serves clients timely. Specialists should use micro-element method to make drivers working hours standardization especially for cities with intensive traffic.


Keywords
Standardization, Delivery, Working hours, Unloading

Patļins, P. Drivers Working Hours Standardization within Planning of Local Deliveries for Cities with Heavy Traffic. In: Proceedings of the 49th RTU Scientific Conference on Economics and Entrepreneurship (SCEE'2008), Latvia, Rīga, 9-13 October, 2008. Rīga: RTU, 2008, pp.271-276. ISBN 978-9984-32-567-5.

Publication language
English (en)
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