TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - The potential of optimization in communal routing problems: case studies from Finland
JO  - Journal of transport geography
A1  - Bräysy, Olli
A1  - Dullaert, Wout
A1  - Nakari, Pentti
SP  - 484
EP  - 490
VL  - 17
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0966-6923
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2008.10.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -