US Patent 12014316 Automatically planning delivery routes using clustering

A method including planning delivery routes using clustering. The method can include generating clusters for nodes for order data based, at least in part, on (a) location information of the nodes and (b) load capacity information of delivery vehicles. The method also can include determining a respective centroid for each of the clusters. Further, the method can include computing a node-cluster distance matrix. Additionally, the method can include reassigning the nodes to the clusters based, at least in part, on: (a) the node-cluster distance matrix; (b) load capacity information of dispatched vehicles of the delivery vehicles; and (c) a predetermined average load threshold of the dispatched vehicles. Moreover, the method can include further reassigning, in at least 2 passes, the nodes to the clusters based, at least in part, on the time window information of the nodes. Other embodiments are disclosed.