A simultaneous facility location and vehicle routing problem arising in health care logistics in the Netherlands

Veenstra, Marjolein; Roodbergen, Kees Jan; Coelho, Leandro C.; Zhu, Stuart X.

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.01.043

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“…e waste collection problem in the healthcare system can be classified as a typical VRP. ere are some works of VRP in the healthcare system; for example, Veenstra et al [2] investigate the facility location problem and VRP arises in home delivery of medication in healthcare logistics. More works devoted to the collection of other wastes [3].…”

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Transportation Risk Control of Waste Disposal in the Healthcare System with Two-Echelon Waste Collection Network

Lyu

et al. 2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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This paper investigates a vehicle routing problem arising in the waste collection of the healthcare system with the concern of transportation risk. Three types of facilities abstracted from the health system are investigated in this paper, namely, facilities with collection points, facilities without collection points, and small facilities. Two-echelon collection mode is applied in which the waste generated by small facilities is first collected by collection points, and then transferred to the recycling centre. To solve this problem, we propose a mixed-integer linear programming model considering time windows and vehicle capacity, and we use particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm for solving large-scale problems. Numerical experiments show the capability of the proposed algorithm. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to investigate the influence of facilities with collection points and the collection routes. This research can provide a decision support tool for the routing of waste collection in the healthcare system.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Transportation Risk Control of Waste Disposal in the Healthcare System with Two-Echelon Waste Collection Network

Lyu

et al. 2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…The objective function was aimed at maximising the total profit, consisting of the revenue from customers who use the service, minus the facilities' fixed and operational costs, the discounts in the delivery costs for customers who need to travel to collect their parcels, and the loss of potential customers who are not willing to travel for service. Based on a heuristic approach, Veenstra et al [45] studied a combined "facility location and vehicle routing" problem. The study was aimed at determining suitable locations for installing lockers in the Netherlands to enable people to receive medication from local pharmacies and for generating optimal routes to the selected locker locations while minimizing the routing cost and the cost for opening lockers.…”

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Establishing Collection and Delivery Points to Encourage the Use of Active Transport: A Case Study in New Zealand Using a Consumer-Centric Approach

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The current and projected trends of growth in online shopping might change the activity and travel patterns in Christchurch, one of the largest cities in New Zealand. Online shopping might reduce consumers’ shopping trips, but it has substantially increased courier companies’ trips to deliver parcels to the end-consumers because a considerable proportion of parcels are often required to be redelivered due to consumers not being at home during the first delivery attempt. This also adds to the operational cost of courier companies and adverse traffic impacts. To mitigate these issues, collection-and-delivery points (CDPs) have recently been introduced in New Zealand on a trial basis. This study aims to identify the optimal density and locations for establishing CDPs in Christchurch using a modified p-median location-allocation (LA) model. A consumer-centric approach to locating CDPs has been adopted by considering the socio-demographic characteristics of Christchurch’s residents and the distances to/from CDPs. Non-traditional CDP locations (e.g., supermarkets and dairies) were considered as potential candidate facilities and were found to be more suitable as CDPs than traditional post shops. Based on consumers’ shopping pattern, supermarkets appeared to be the most frequently visited and preferred type of facility to be used as CDPs. However, the results of the LA analyses show that dairies are the most accessible locations, and CDPs at dairies located within two kilometres will encourage consumers to walk and cycle to receive their parcels from CDPs. The results suggest the optimal location configuration for each type of facility considered, based on their spatial distribution in the city.

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“…To reduce the transportation cost, some logistics companies have developed efficient distribution systems that deliver items through pickup facilities (e.g. lockers) instead of distributing to customers' homes directly, [6][7][8] and thus vehicles do not need to visit all patients.…”

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On the medication distribution system for home health care through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery

Suwatcharachaitiwong

Lin

Huang

et al. 2020

Health Informatics J

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Medication distribution service can be delivered based on a combination of home delivery and customer pickup. That is, medications are delivered either to customers’ homes directly or to the pickup facilities (e.g. lockers) close to customers’ homes. In Taiwan, there are more than 11,000 convenience stores that provide a 24-h service for customers to pick up the ordered items from e-commerce, which is unique to the world. In the medication distribution system, convenience stores can provide a unique opportunity for customers to more conveniently collect medications at stores, and also can reduce the operating cost for a logistics company providing the medication delivery service. Therefore, this work proposes a medication distribution system through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery. Under this system, this work investigates how to simultaneously determine employment of convenience store chains, the convenience store locations to be visited, locations of lockers, vehicle routes for convenience stores and lockers, and vehicle routes for customers’ homes, so that the total operating cost is minimized. This work further proposes a genetic algorithm to solve the medication distribution problem. Through simulation, the experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is able to solve the problem efficiently.

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A simultaneous facility location and vehicle routing problem arising in health care logistics in the Netherlands

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Cited by 66 publications

References 31 publications

Transportation Risk Control of Waste Disposal in the Healthcare System with Two-Echelon Waste Collection Network

Transportation Risk Control of Waste Disposal in the Healthcare System with Two-Echelon Waste Collection Network

Establishing Collection and Delivery Points to Encourage the Use of Active Transport: A Case Study in New Zealand Using a Consumer-Centric Approach

On the medication distribution system for home health care through convenience stores, lockers, and home delivery

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