[pgrouting-users] Using pgrouting for senior capstone design project?

[Andy Carnevale]

I'm a senior industrial engineering student at Ohio State working at a
local healthcare company to help them improve their routing
efficiency. I've been tasked with designing a software solution that
will help them generate daily routes. They serve almost 600 active
clients across four centers around Columbus with a fleet of 26 vans. I
need to figure out some way to take their client roster and generate
routes that will minimize costs within the system restraints (limited
number of wheelchair spots on each van, different client pickup
windows, etc.). I have a background in operations research, but I have
never dealt with such a large problem before. I've never worked with
Postgres before either. The deadline for this project is the first
week of June.

Before I begin using pgrouting to develop this solution, I wanted to
ask for your thoughts on the feasibility of this approach, any advice
you have, or issues you foresee.

Thank you for your help.
Andy Carnevale
carnevalem at gmail.com