Achieving Operational Excellence: Using Internet Software to Plan Efficient

Transportation Routes

Software skills: Internet$-$based software

Business skills: Transportation planning

$2-11$ In this exercise, you will use Google Maps to map out transportation routes for a business and select the most eflicient route.

You have just started working as a dispatcher for Cross$-$Country Transport, a new trucking and delivery service based in Cleveland, Ohio. Your first assignment is to plan a delivery of office equipment and furniture from Elkhart, Indiana $($at the corner of E$.$ Indiana Ave. and Prairie Street$),$ to Hagerstown, Maryland $($at the corner of Eastern Blvd$.$ N$.$ and Potomac Ave.$).$ To guide your trucker, you need to know the most efficient route between the two cities. Use Google Maps to find the route that is the shortest distance between the two cities.

Use Google Maps again to find the route that takes the least time. Compare the results. Which route should Cross$-$Country use?