Terms

This section lists frequently used terms and their meanings:

The hard, medium, and soft rules that must be taken into account when creating a pick-up and delivery schedule.

Timefold accepts input datasets that include information about the drivers and the jobs to be scheduled and optimized. Input datasets are created using our predefined model schema which follows the OpenAPI specification. Timefold returns output datasets that contain the optimized solution.

See the API spec for more information.

A person who can be assigned jobs. They work shifts which have start and end times.

A job is a series of stops that typically include a pick-up location, a delivery location, and can include other locations between the pick-up and delivery.

The time period that will have jobs scheduled during a planning session.

A work period with start and end times when a driver is available for jobs.

A destination within a job. Jobs have multiple stops.