Patent ID: 8280548

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a plurality of delivery requests, each delivery request specifying goods to be delivered, and destination locations of the goods to be delivered; receiving data descriptive of a route which a vehicle will travel to deliver the goods to the destination locations; creating, by a computer system, a plan for the placement of the goods on a staging area associated with the vehicle, the plan defining a first spatial sequence in which the goods are to be placed in the staging area, the staging area defining a physical place where the goods are intermediately put down and sequentially picked up from to be loaded on the vehicle; wherein the goods are to be positioned on the staging area in the first spatial sequence such that they can be sequentially picked up there from and sequentially placed in the vehicle in a second spatial sequence that permits direct access to the goods in the vehicle for unloading from the vehicle at the respective destination locations in the sequence of arrival at the destination locations.