Optrak Distribution Software Limited

Local Authorities are under considerable pressure to demonstrate leadership in the area of decarbonisation, and no element of their service is more 'visible' than their refuse collection operations. At the same time as fleet managers are being asked to decarbonise their vehicles, the range of demands placed on them is increasing. As refuse collection vehi...

There are currently no fleet-management solutions for planning efficient routes and charging for EV last mile fleets. This creates a substantial roadblock for companies that would switch from diesel- or petrol-powered vehicles to electronic ones in line with the UK's Net-Zero goals for 2030\. Current solutions for managing EV fleets do not consider consum...

Current supermarket home delivery mechanisms typically offer users an inflexible set of slots (usually 2 hours for food) which fail to make maximum use of the customer's actual time at home and rule out delivery times for customers for whom the rigid slot boundaries do not align with out-of-home activities. The project will deliver and integrated slot boo...

This project is for a web-based SaaS application to improve the efficiency of the home-delivery/courier services to handle the highly unpredictable and fluctuating delivery quantities seen in the current COVID-19 situation. Optrak has identified a viable strategy to deliver a unified depot-level planning system that can: * Cope with highly varying demand ...

To develop and implement novel and advanced, hyper-heuristics based routing technologies for standard and non-standard haulage markets.

11.5% of home deliveries fail because nobody is in, resulting in costly redelivery or, for the customer, expensive trips to the dispatching depot. Tell Us When allows customers to better express their delivery preferences, to be better informed of deliver times and to have more reliable delivery time estimates. It will result in a reduction in the number ...