Solving a home-care districting problem in an urban setting

M Blais, S D Lapierre and G Laporte ()
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M Blais: Urgences-Santé
S D Lapierre: École Polytechnique, C.P. 6079, Succursale Centre-Ville
G Laporte: Centre de recherche sur les transports, (CRT) Universite de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003, vol. 54, issue 11, 1141-1147

Abstract: Abstract This article describes a districting study undertaken for the Côte-des-Neiges local community health clinic in Montreal. A territory must be partitioned into six districts by suitably grouping territorial basic units. Five districting criteria must be respected: indivisibility of basic units, respect for borough boundaries, connectivity, visiting personnel mobility, and workload equilibrium. The last two criteria are combined into a single objective function and the problem is solved by means of a tabu search technique that iteratively moves a basic unit to an adjacent district or swaps two basic units between adjacent districts. The problem was solved and the clinic management confirmed its satisfaction after a 2 year implementation period.

Keywords: districting; community health clinic; multi-criteria optimization; tabu search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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