Patent ID: 7353220

Claim:
A method for determining a transport path between two transportation states using a dynamic retrieval of assigned application data, comprising: providing transportation master data including: an input set G of hierarchically organized data elements g, wherein the elements g of input set G relate to at least one of transportation states and transportation lanes connecting transportation states; a condition set M of hierarchically organized data constraint elements m, wherein the elements m of the condition set M relate to transportation constraints; for each element g of the input set G a static condition assignment set IM(g) with elements m of the condition set M; and for each element (g,m) of the Cartesian product of the input set G and the condition set M a static value assignment set IP(g,m) with data associations p included in a value set P, wherein the elements p of the value set P relate to transportation associations; and determining a transport path between at least one first element g of the input set G and at least one second element g of the input set G via a plurality of third elements g of the input set G including: dynamically determining from the transportation master data for elements g of the input set G application assignment sets A(g) with elements (m,p) of the Cartesian product of the condition set M and the value set P, taking into account the hierarchical organization of the input set G and the condition set M; and performing transport path optimization taking into account the assignments included in the determined application assignment sets A(g).