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original scepticism was unfounded. Pactel, Rochester House, 33 Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2QP. Tel: 01-828 7744.
Scicon
Scicon is a large computer software company and part of BP. Its scheduling and routeing system is called Vanplan and was developed five or six years ago. It is written in Fortran and runs on Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) minicomputers. The program is not available in microcomputer form. Because Vanplan is mini rather than micro-based it is more expensive than other scheduling packages.
The necessary software (road database plus daily scheduling program) costs around £25,000. This drops to £20,000 if