Field cost model

Converts a routing solution and a sample into money (or time): a cost per unit of travel, a fixed cost per route (a team-day: allowances, vehicle, lodging), a fixed cost per visited unit (access, setup) and a cost per interview.

Usage

field_cost_model(
  per_travel = 1,
  per_unit = 0,
  per_interview = 0,
  interviews_per_unit = 1,
  per_route = 0,
  currency = "cost"
)

Arguments

per_travel

Cost per unit of the travel matrix (per km, per minute).

per_unit

Fixed cost of visiting one unit.

per_interview

Cost of one interview.

interviews_per_unit

Expected interviews per visited unit: a single number, a vector with one value per row of the travel matrix (depot included, in the same order), or a function of the row indices of the visited units.

per_route

Fixed cost of one route (one team for one day).

currency

Label for reports.

Value

An object of class field_cost_model.

Examples

field_cost_model(per_travel = 1.2, per_unit = 50, per_interview = 15, interviews_per_unit = 8)
#> Field cost model (cost): 1.2 per travel unit, 0 per route, 50 per visited unit,
#> 15 per interview.