Aircraft Route Planning

CCR designed and implemented a cargo plane route planning system for the U.S. Postal Service. The system, called AirNet, is currently in use at the Postal Service's Operations Center in Washington, D.C. and enables planners to optimally schedule shipments of mail over a network of Post Office-owned aircraft and commercial aircraft. AirNet uses a customized optimization algorithm to search among all the possible routings between U.S. postal centers and selects the least expensive routing given various constraints.