GreenLane Logistics
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GreenLane Logistics

AI-powered route optimization cutting fuel costs by 31%

Duration

12 weeks

Team

3 engineers

Year

2024

Overview

GreenLane operated a fleet of 340 delivery vehicles across the Southeastern US. Their dispatchers manually planned routes each morning — a process that took 3 hours and consistently produced suboptimal paths, burning excess fuel and missing delivery windows.

The Challenge

Route optimization at this scale is an NP-hard problem. Off-the-shelf solutions either cost $200K+ annually or couldn't handle their specific constraints: mixed vehicle types, driver shift preferences, real-time traffic, and customer-specific delivery windows down to 30-minute slots.

Our Approach
01

Built a custom optimization engine combining OR-Tools with a fine-tuned ML model trained on 18 months of historical delivery data

02

Created a dispatcher dashboard that generates optimized routes in under 90 seconds for the entire fleet

03

Integrated real-time traffic data and weather forecasts for dynamic re-routing throughout the day

04

Developed a driver mobile app with turn-by-turn navigation and proof-of-delivery capture

Results

The numbers tell the story.

Fuel Costs-31%

Annual fuel spend reduced by $1.2M across the fleet

Planning Time3hrs → 8min

Morning route planning went from hours to minutes

On-time Delivery97.2%

Up from 78% before the system was deployed

The ROI was clear within the first month. We saved more on fuel than the entire project cost.

Marcus Cole

VP Operations, GreenLane Logistics

Tech Stack
PythonReactPostgreSQLGoogle CloudTensorFlow

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