The potential of optimization in communal routing problems: case studies from Finland

Olli Bräysy, Wout Dullaert and Pentti Nakari

Journal of Transport Geography, 2009, vol. 17, issue 6, 484-490

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Vehicle routing; City logistics; Case study; Optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.003

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