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The potential of optimization in communal routing problems: case studies from Finland
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Author
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Abstract
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| 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. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of transport geography. - London
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Publication
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London
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2009
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ISSN
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0966-6923
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Volume/pages
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17
:6
(2009)
, p. 484-490
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ISI
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000270627400008
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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