TY - JOUR
T1 - The potential of optimization in communal routing problems
T2 - case studies from Finland
AU - Bräysy, Olli
AU - Dullaert, Wout
AU - Nakari, Pentti
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - In many European countries, municipalities offer their inhabitants a wide variety of social services. In this paper we will focus on efficiently scheduling home care, transportation of the elderly, and home meal delivery. These so-called municipal or communal routing problems can be modeled as different variants of the vehicle routing problem, a well-known optimization problem from the literature. We present a focused literature review and report on case studies using Finnish data. The computational results show that there is a significant potential for cost savings for all applications considered.
AB - In many European countries, municipalities offer their inhabitants a wide variety of social services. In this paper we will focus on efficiently scheduling home care, transportation of the elderly, and home meal delivery. These so-called municipal or communal routing problems can be modeled as different variants of the vehicle routing problem, a well-known optimization problem from the literature. We present a focused literature review and report on case studies using Finnish data. The computational results show that there is a significant potential for cost savings for all applications considered.
KW - Case study
KW - City logistics
KW - Optimization
KW - Vehicle routing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:69449105622
VL - 17
SP - 484
EP - 490
JO - Journal of Transport Geography
JF - Journal of Transport Geography
SN - 0966-6923
IS - 6
ER -