@article{ref1,
title="The potential of optimization in communal routing problems: case studies from Finland",
journal="Journal of transport geography",
year="2009",
author="Bräysy, Olli and Dullaert, Wout and Nakari, Pentti",
volume="17",
number="6",
pages="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.<p />",
language="",
issn="0966-6923",
doi="10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.003"
}