SCM$100$ Information Systems, Application Exercise $$ Transportation Planning

Due Monday, January $29,2024,11$:$59$ pm Penalties of $10\%$ per day late will apply

Graded $\_\_\_\_/10$

Achieving Operational Excellence: using Internet Software to Plan Efficient Transportation Routes

Software Skills: Internet$-$based software : Business Skills: Transportation Planning

In this exercise, you will use MapQuest software to map out transportation routes for a business and select the most efficient route.

You have just started working as a dispatcher for Cross$-$Country Transport, a new trucking and delivery service based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Your first assignment is to plan a delivery of office equipment and furniture from Elkhart, IN $($at the corner of Indiana Ave. and Prairie Street$)$ to St$.$ Joh, NB $($corner of Wetmoland Road and Rothesay Avenue$).$ To guide your trucker, you need to know the most efficient route between the two cities.

Use MapQuest

Find the route that is the shortest distance between the two cities.

Use MapQuest again to find the route that takes the least time.

Compare the results.

Which route should Cross$-$Country use?