0 a person who is responsible for sending out people or vehicles to where they are needed, especially emergency vehicles:
1 a person whose job is to make sure that planes, trains, or buses leave on time:
2 a person whose job is to manage a group of vehicles, especially for the emergency services, and send them where they are needed:
3 the person or company that has sent goods, a message, etc. to a place:
Second, the reduction in the conveyance rate might have been an indirect result from a selection bias from the emergency dispatchers.
In transportation networks, unnecessary costs are incurred when coordination between dispatchers fails, and when vehicles are not utilized to their capacity as often as possible.
The operations carried out by the dispatcher may not influence the assembly process cycle time.
It is important to note that, for the dispatcher, the data transmission speeds (communications) are just as vital as the processing speed.
Couriers who continually interrupt or pester their dispatcher for work, or frequently vent their frustrations on the radio, soon find themselves making $2 or $3 an hour.
The dispatcher is concerned with real-time operations.
For example, when an order is modified or is cancelled, if the corresponding route is still being planned, the agent re-optimizes the plan and informs the dispatcher.
The display uses extensive nonredundant color information to relay information on the track status, signal status, and rules that govern the track usage to the dispatcher.
