A simultaneous facility location and vehicle routing problem arising in health care logistics in the Netherlands.
Marjolein VeenstraKees Jan RoodbergenLeandro C. CoelhoStuart X. ZhuPublished in: Eur. J. Oper. Res. (2018)
Keyphrases
- health care
- facility location
- vehicle routing problem
- multi depot
- logistics distribution
- vehicle routing
- integer programming
- vehicle routing problem with time windows
- routing problem
- np hard
- metaheuristic
- information systems
- network design
- tabu search
- primary care
- benchmark problems
- traveling salesman problem
- lagrangian relaxation
- mixed integer
- travel time
- combinatorial optimization
- particle swarm optimization
- multi criteria
- supply chain
- health care providers
- scheduling problem
- column generation
- lot sizing
- evolutionary algorithm
- genetic algorithm
- branch and bound algorithm
- health services
- linear program
- optimization problems
- information retrieval