Transporter with Orders

[CarelL]

I build a very simple model trying to figure out how a transporter can pick up the maximum entities for the capacity of the transporter and drop it off at the node destination it has been set and then return to pick up the rest of the entities.

It seems that the transporter doesn't want to pick more than one entity although its capacity has been set to 10.

How can i do orders with a transporter?

Thus allowing it to pick up 10 entities(capacity of the transporter) and returning to pick up the rest.

Please see attached model

Any assistance would be much appreciated

Transporter_Orders.spfx

[dsturrock]

If the vehicle Routing Type is On Demand, then it works by reservation only. Reservations are made based on the node's Reservation Method and Selection Goal. In general each vehicle can only accept a single reservation at a time, with the exception that it will accept up to (Vehicle Capacity) reservations all originating at the same node and with destinations at the same node.

You can customize the above behavior customizing the Evaluating Transport Request Add-on Process as illustrated in the attached Librarian model.Workshop08c-Librarian.spfx

Another choice which may better address your problem is to make your vehicle Routing Type be Fixed Path. With this, the vehicle will cycle through any nodes you want and pick up as many at each node as possible. You can see an example of this in the VehicleFixedRoute SimBit.