Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Mobile communication technologies enable communication beten dispatchers and drivers and hence can enable fleet management based on real-time information.  assume that such communication capability exists for a single pickup and delivery vehicle and that  know the likelihood, as a function of time, that each of the vehicle's potential customers will make a pickup request.  then model and analyze the problem of constructing a minimum expected total cost route from an origin to a destination that anticipates and then responds to service requests, if they occur, while the vehicle is en route.  model this problem as a Markov decision process and present several structured results associated with the optimal expected cost-to-go function and an optimal policy for route construction.  illustrate the behavior of an optimal policy with several numerical examples and demonstrate the superiority of an optimal anticipatory policy, relative to a route design approach that reflects the reactive nature of current routing procedures for less-than-truckload pickup and delivery.
['Barrett W. Thomas', 'Chelsea C. White']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Anticipatory Route Selection
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