Example:

Client has spread sheet of 600 trips. They need to be geocoded (we do that through an import process. After this we take the trips and group them into manifests. All the trips have a specific pickup time and a drop that can be as early as 45 minutes prior to an appointment or as late as 15 minutes after the appoint. Each van has a capacity, and can have as many as 'x' on the van. The rides are shared. We need to find the trips that will fit on the manifest. I was hoping I could use MP to do this. Perhaps we can, at the very least test the route using MP and decide if the trip fits. I don't know. We have programmers that write in C#.Net and would like to us MP as our mapping software for a lot of things. Vehicle location (several vehicles on one display) is one for example. But this first problem is a bear and we have been working on it for months, using another mapping program.