{"id":5563,"date":"2015-06-17T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2015-06-17T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:12:32","slug":"how-ups-augments-its-drivers-intuition-with-predictive-analytics-0617153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-ups-augments-its-drivers-intuition-with-predictive-analytics-0617153\/5563\/","title":{"rendered":"How UPS Augments Its Drivers\u2019 Intuition with Predictive Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"Imagine someone who has five errands to run on a nice little Saturday. Five tasks means there are 120 different ways to sequence and complete those tasks, once you factor out the numbers. Now think of a UPS driver who has 120 deliveries to make in a day\u2014it would take up far too much space here to even write the number that represents the total possible routes they can go. Add in that UPS has its drivers avoid making left turns and has rigorous service level agreements to meet\u2014some packages have to be delivered by 10:30 am, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-ups-augments-its-drivers-intuition-with-predictive-analytics-0617153\/5563\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine someone who has five errands to run on a nice little Saturday. Five tasks means there are 120 different ways to sequence and complete those tasks, once you factor out the numbers. Now think of a UPS driver who has 120 deliveries to make in a day\u2014it would take up far too much space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[410,395],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-jack-levis","tag-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}