Abstract
Home-delivered meals provision, also known as meals-on-wheels, is a volunteer-staffed activity for which little strategic planning is performed. We develop a Memetic Algorithm to solve the Home Delivered Meals Location-Routing Problem. This planning model addresses facility location, allocation of demand to facilities, and design of delivery routes, while balancing efficiency and effectiveness considerations. The case study presented on a large data set shows how trade-off curves, which are very useful for decision making, can be obtained by the method developed.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1540-1550 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 2013 |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Modeling and Simulation
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Strategy and Management
- Management Science and Operations Research
Keywords
- heuristics
- location
- multi-objective
- vehicle routing
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