Modeling Industrial Vehicles

Modeling an industrial vehicle involves modeling a resource that moves along a path network. Paths are typically open aisles in which bi-directional movement is possible and passing is permitted. You may also need to define deployment strategies (work searches, idle vehicle parking, etc.).

Since people generally operate industrial vehicles, they take breaks and may be available only during certain shifts. So in addition to modeling the vehicle, you may need to model an operator that takes breaks and works on shifts or you may just want to assign shifts and breaks to the vehicle resource itself, in effect, modeling the vehicle and the operator as one resource.