The powerful and unique vehicle routing software for small and micro businesses. It is resource-efficient and could be deployed as SaaS application or on-premise.

Features

• Optimization of vehicle routes through the combination of three different heuristics (M3PDP, Delta-M3PDP and Savings++)
• automatic calculation of ETA
• intuitive user interface
• allows subsequent modification of generated tour
• PDF / Print feature for route planning
• Auto-complete of addresses
• extensive validation of user inputs
• Windows support via JRuby
• Searchable orders and customers

Prerequisites

• Ruby.2.x - 2.4.x
• ImageMagic 7.0.7-22
• wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (for PDF generation)

only for Windows support:

• JRuby v.9.1.13.0 (instead of regular Ruby)
• JRE (Java Runtime Environment) v.8.144

Installation

Get the repository

git clone https://github.com/nielspetersen/smar_T.git
cd smar_T

Note: The following steps are ony valid for Linux / Unix systems. See below for instructrions on how to set up smar[T] in an Windows environment.

Update your bundle

bundle install

and setup database (and run migrations)

rake db:setup

Installation on Windows:

git checkout jruby # switch to separate branch
jruby -S gem install bundler
jruby -S bundle install
jruby -S rake db:setup
jruby -S rails server

Run application

Execute

rails server

or

rails server -b 0.0.0.0 -p 3000

to make the Rails application accessible to others in the same network.

Reference

Based on work of:

[1] Brendel, A. B. (2015) Konzeptionierung eines ressourcen- und kosteneffizienten green Software-as-a-Service Tourenplanungssystems für Kleinst- und Kleinunternehmen, Masterthesis, University of Göttingen

[2] Kindermann, P. Tourenplanung mit Zeitfenstern für mehrere Fahrzeuge, Diploma thesis, University of Würzburg