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A Routing/Assignment Problem in Garden Maintenance Services

dc.contributor.authorCerdeira, J. O.
dc.contributor.authorCruz, M.
dc.contributor.authorMoura, A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-12T16:13:21Z
dc.date.available2018-03-12T16:13:21Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractWe address a routing/assignment problem posed by Neoturf, which is a Portuguese company working in the area of project, building and garden’s main- tenance. The aim is to define a procedure for scheduling and routing efficiently its clients of garden maintenance services. The company has two teams available throughout the year to handle all the maintenance jobs. Each team consists of two or three employees with a fully-equipped vehicle capable of carrying out every kind of maintenance service. At the beginning of each year, the number and frequency of maintenance interventions to conduct during the year, for each client, are agreed. Time windows are established so that visits to the client should occur only within these periods. There are clients that are supposed to be always served by the same team, but other clients can be served indifferently by any of the two teams. Since clients are geographically spread over a wide region, the total distance traveled while visiting clients is a factor that weighs heavily on the company costs. Neoturf is con- cerned with reducing these costs, while satisfying agreements with its clients. We give a mixed integer linear programming formulation for the problem, discuss lim- itations on the size of instances that can be solved to guarantee optimality, present a modification of the Clarke and Wright heuristic for the vehicle routing with time windows, and report preliminary computational results obtained with Neoturf data.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-20328-7_9pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-20328-7
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-20327-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/11095
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSpringerpt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-20328-7_9pt_PT
dc.subjectOptimizationpt_PT
dc.subjectVehicle routing problem with time windowspt_PT
dc.subjectMixed integer linear programmingpt_PT
dc.subjectClarke and Wright heuristicpt_PT
dc.titleA Routing/Assignment Problem in Garden Maintenance Servicespt_PT
dc.typepreprint
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oaire.awardURIinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/UID%2FMAT%2F00297%2F2013/PT
oaire.citation.endPage155pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage145pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleOperational Research. CIM Series in Mathematical Sciencespt_PT
oaire.citation.volume4pt_PT
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oaire.fundingStream5876
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project.funder.identifierhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871
project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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