Originally Posted by
cooker
It's going to be highly variable depending on the service types and volumes. If a lot of people use the same grocery service, and the delivery guy can drop off several household's loads on the same loop, it's less driving than each family driving on their own to the supermarket and back. On the other hand, if some clients accomplished several errands on one trip to the mall or mainstreet: see the manicurist, get a haircut and pick up pizza, that's less driving than having that all come to their home separately. So we may not even be able to answer the question until we study it after it happens.
My guess is that if the service providers can schedule it optimally, like one of my those old child's puzzles where you draw a line from the number 1 to 2 to 3 and so on and it turns out to be the outline of a dinosaur, that would be less driving than all those people making a round trip to see them.
OK, makes sense, thanks.
Originally Posted by
cooker
My guess is that if the service providers can schedule it optimally, like one of my those old child's puzzles where you draw a line from the number 1 to 2 to 3 and so on and it turns out to be the outline of a dinosaur, that would be less driving than all those people making a round trip to see them.
BTW, I guess that route planning is a VERY high level cognitive task. Last I heard, it was practically impossible for either a computer or a human mind to optimize a route that consists of more than a few legs and turns. Maybe that has changed recently?