Preparing data on transportation network within transport optimization system

Works upon computer systems for agricultural goods transport management require, among others, an appropriate preparing the data on transportation network within transport optimization system. Such transportation network is very complicated and contains a variety of detailed information on purchase centres, to which cereals are supplied by farmers; stores, to which purchased cereal is transported; and transportation means that take part in a transport of purchased cereals. Since 80's decade of the 20th century, works upon the optimization of agricultural goods transport process have been performed at The Department of Agricultural Machines and Devices, University of Life Sciences in Lublin. That time, many transportation systems based on various optimization methods were worked out. Particular versions were written in different programming languages, subsequent versions of data processing procedures were worked out and different methods (more and more advanced) for computer map of the area were applied. All data referring to centres the goods are received from, and supplied to, upon the transportation means should be entered into the database in such a way that the software could use them during calculations. The software perfectly facilitates the process of data input. In a simple and clear way, it ensures the accessibility to particular files as well as movements among them. Its role is to generate files used subsequently to calculations in optimization software.