The week before Christmas in the North Pole is undoubtedly busy. There’s the last minute gift manufacturing for all of those kids who’ve found their way off the naughty list. Elves are getting the sleigh tuned up. They are getting the reindeer fed extra helpings of hay and food.

Santa. He’s in his office. Maps spread across his desk top, folded and tucked into every spare nook and extra cranny. He’s hand drawn routes all over the world. Here then there to maximize his time.

Delivering gifts to every house in the world in one night is a bit of a logistics challenge. It’s not something you do without a lot of planning. But what would go into that planning? And, realistically, how many Santas would be needed to actually pull off the feat?

To answer that question, we talked with three Omnitracs software engineers who develop the algorithms that power our Roadnet routing and navigation software for their take. We also asked Art Kutsy, Matt Burroughs and Chad Flanders what it would take to pull off the feat if the if the whole thing were done by truck.