Which lanes to run, at what frequency, and what each leg costs — solved to proven optimality at up to 500 terminals. Four modes are modeled — road, rail, air and ocean — and where road and rail meet, the optimizer picks the mode lane by lane.
One week of the same freight, priced identically: the optimized plan costs $5.71M against $10.36M when every shipment takes its individually cheapest path — solved end-to-end through the shipped engine and proven optimal, with the same freight served in both plans. The percentages are the transferable statistic; the dollar magnitudes scale with the modeled network’s volume, so read them as benchmark economics, not a measured customer result.
Against a plan that keeps the full network open and paid for whether each route is needed that week or not, the savings run larger at every size — 49% to 59%. The shipment-by-shipment comparison is the harder one, so it stays the headline.
Line-haul sits inside your operating ratio — operating expense over revenue, the number carriers report every quarter. A dollar you stop spending there becomes a dollar of operating income, without a new customer, a new lane or a new truck. So the comparison worth making is not your freight spend — it is growth.
Each line is a real freight lane — intermodal, air or road — drawn at the volume that moves on it. Drag the slider to tighten what you promised the shipper. Road transit is bound by hours of service, so a lane past its rail cutoff drops back to road in amber, and a lane no legal road run can reach at all moves to air in blue. Down to 96 hours the panel re-reads the solve; below that it reports derived air transit instead.
Network Optimizer plans road, rail, air and ocean freight in one model. The current benchmark solves a 500-terminal network to a proven optimum — a zero gap, meaning no cheaper plan exists for that freight. Pick a lane to see the two costs the optimizer weighed against each other, built up per container, and what the choice is worth across a week of volume.
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This account's baseline is a run-everything plan that operates every candidate lane directly, which is why its rate sits far above the figures earlier on this page — those measure a solved network against a normal plan on the same lanes. Different question, different baseline.
This is the whole price list, and every figure in the plan is built from it. There is no blended average and no cost per unit hiding a mix of lanes — a movement's charge is a base plus a per-mile rate for its equipment, times the miles it actually runs. That is what makes a saving checkable: change one number here and the plan re-prices in front of you.
It is also what keeps the optimizer honest. Air costs roughly sixteen times a dry van per mile, so the engine only flies a lane when the date leaves it no ground option — never because air scored better on a blended rate.
Each one carries the network, the baseline it was measured against, and the gap certificate — and we will re-run any of them in front of you on your own data.
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Which lanes to run, at what frequency, on what cadence, at what cost — solved to a proven gap and kept optimal against the service commitments you already sold.
Veridiance automates the entire document management process for freight forwarders and brokers.
A lane file and minimal paperwork is all we need to prove the value of Network Optimizer. Even with the bare minimum, we will optimize your lanes against your current plan as the stated baseline — and show the receipts behind every number.