Citation

Bräysy O, Dullaert W, Nakari P. J. Transp. Geogr. 2009; 17(6): 484-490.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.003

PMID

unavailable

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.