Transportation Network Analysis with Graph Theory

Use graph theory to optimize the road transportation network of a retail company

Transportation Network Analysis with Graph Theory — (Image by Author)

Objective

Build graphical representations of a road transportation network to support optimization studies.

Introduction

For a retailer, road transportation to deliver stores represents a major part of the logistics costs.

Companies often conduct route planning optimization studies to reduce these costs and improve the efficiency of their network.

It requires collaboration between continuous improvement engineers …

analysis graph logistics network python retail supply-chain-management theory transportation