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Estimate delivery-stop capacity from vehicle availability, travel time and service minutes without calculating routes.
Measure stop time as a complete cycle
Include parking, handover, scanning and unsuccessful delivery attempts in the service assumption. Driving should include movement between stops on representative routes, not an empty-road estimate.
How the calculation works
Per-vehicle capacity = floor(max(duty minutes − fixed non-stop minutes, 0) ÷ (driving + service minutes per stop)). Fleet capacity = available vehicles × per-vehicle capacity. Completed stops = min(capacity, demand). money left after variable costs = completed stops × money left after variable costs per stop.
A worked example
Six vehicles with 480 duty minutes less 90 fixed minutes have 390 stop-work minutes each. At 20 minutes per stop, each can complete 19 whole stops: 114 fleet stops. Demand of 120 leaves six unserved; 114 stops at 15 give 1,710 money left after variable costs.
Check whether demand fills capacity
Extra vehicle capacity has no money left after variable costs without deliveries to fill it. Compare demand and operational constraints before adding a vehicle. money left after variable costs per stop should subtract directly avoidable delivery costs on a consistent basis.
What the result leaves out
No route, driver schedule, vehicle capacity or safety requirement is optimized. Actual delivery windows, distance and package sizes can change feasibility. The model assumes similar vehicles and routes; calculate different groups separately.
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The defaults are constructed examples, not market benchmarks. Choose one currency for every monetary input; the currency selector formats values and does not convert exchange rates. Keep a copy of the records and assumptions behind your result so you can repeat the comparison after the next reporting period.
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