ActiveTransportation
Transportation Modeling Software That Tests Your Plan Before You Run It
Built to adapt and grow with your business.
Manhattan's Transportation Management System (TMS) is cloud-native software that helps shippers plan, optimize, and execute freight movement — managing carriers, rates, routes, and loads across the entire transportation network in real time.
Modeling
Keep Your Transportation Plan Right As Conditions Change
Test a new customer location, a carrier capacity restriction, a fuel cost swing, or an hours-of-service change before it reaches your network, so every plan stays cost-effective as conditions shift.
Test Network Changes Before they Become Commitments
Build scenarios around changes such as new facilities, regions, carrier strategies or transportation policies, then simulate them against your transportation data to understand the network-wide impact before committing capital or changing operations.
Quantify cost, service and capacity tradeoffs
Compare alternate scenarios side by side and see how changes to rates, capacity, modes, carriers and operating assumptions affect cost and service before choosing a direction.
Make Scenario Analysis Part of Ongoing Transportation Strategy
Use repeatable scenario modeling on your own transportation data to test what-if questions as they arise, giving teams an ongoing way to evaluate network decisions instead of relying on one-time studies or static assumptions.
Resources and Downloads
See how Manhattan's transportation modeling software fits into a unified transportation platform:
Features
Turn Network Change Into a Quantified Decision
Model transportation changes, compare the resulting cost and service outcomes and turn the analysis into evidence for the decision before you commit.
Model
Build realistic scenarios around the changes you need to evaluate.
Test new facilities, regions, carrier strategies, and transportation policies without changing the live transportation operation.
Change fuel, rates, capacity restrictions, and operating assumptions together to understand how each variable affects the outcome.
Use machine learning and simulations based on historical and forecasted transportation data to validate what-if scenarios against realistic network conditions.
Evaluate transportation changes across multiple modes and carriers so the scenario reflects the operating choices available to the network.
Compare
Make the trade-offs between scenarios visible before choosing a direction.
Compare alternate configurations directly so decision-makers can see how each scenario changes transportation performance.
Evaluate transportation cost alongside service outcomes rather than optimizing one objective in isolation.
Compare environmental implications alongside cost and service to understand how transportation choices affect sustainability goals.
Review the network measures most relevant to the decision and compare how those metrics change from one scenario to another.
Decide
Turn scenario results into evidence for the decision ahead.
Understand how adding a distribution center, store, market, or region changes transportation cost, distance, and service before committing.
Re-test the network when rates, carrier capacity, demand or operating constraints change and compare the available responses.
Compare alternate carrier strategies, policies, and transportation assumptions before incorporating them into operating plans.
Carry the selected scenario forward with quantified assumptions and trade-offs so planning teams can use the analysis to guide the next decision.
The Only One Recognized as a Leader in All Four
“Provides great visibility and is great for cost reducing feature such as route optimization and load consolidation.”
Gartner Operations Manager - Media
Progress and Results
Find out how Manhattan's solutions were able to make efficiency gains and optimize delivery schedules for a national regional supermarket chain.
Manhattan TMS cut empty miles eight percent by optimizing routes, filling backhauls and improving delivery scheduling across stores.
“Provides great visibility and is great for cost reducing feature such as route optimization and load consolidation.”
Ann-Marie Daugherty
Vice President Of Logistics | Giant Eagle
Enterprise Impact
Turn Network Decisions Into Measurable Business Choices
Transportation network changes affect more than freight. They shape capital, operating costs, service, capacity, and the resilience of the broader supply chain.
See how companies like yours use Modeling
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Giant Eagle is a leading regional supermarket chain.
From planning to execution, see how Manhattan’s solutions drive measurable improvements. The full case study shows what success can look like in action.
Modeling
Frequently Asked Questions
Transportation modeling software simulates changes to your transportation network, such as a new distribution center, a different transportation policy, or new routing options, so you can quantify the impact before you make the change. It analyzes real-world historical data and uses realistic simulations to show how each option affects service and transportation costs.
No. Manhattan's transportation modeling is built for supply chain teams making freight-network decisions, such as distribution center locations, transportation policies, routing options, capacity constraints, and demand changes. It models the movement of goods through a commercial transportation network, so it isn't designed for urban passenger transportation systems.
You can model distribution center and store locations, transportation policies, fuel costs, hours-of-service changes, carrier capacity restrictions, and third-party carrier rates. Create an unlimited number of scenarios, adjust a range of variables, and compare the results side by side.
No. Transportation modeling supports strategic and tactical planning, like testing network and policy changes before you commit to them, while transportation planning handles day-to-day shipment planning and execution. Modeling uses historic and forecasted data to show how a change could affect your network.
Manhattan's transportation modeling is part of ActiveTransportation™, the same solution family as its transportation management and dispatch capabilities. That keeps strategic and tactical planning connected to the transportation solution your team uses to optimize execution, so you can test network changes, transportation policies, and routing options and understand their operational impact.
Transportation modeling supports shippers evaluating changes across their transportation network, from adding a single distribution center to reworking transportation policies network-wide. Talk with Manhattan about the right fit for your network's size and complexity.
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