Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5110526 | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2016 | 23 Pages |
Abstract
In service territory design applications, a field service workforce is responsible for providing recurring services at their customers' sites. We introduce the associated planning problem, which consists of two subproblems: In the partitioning subproblem, customers must be grouped into service territories. In the scheduling subproblem, customer visits must be scheduled throughout the multi-period planning horizon. The emphasis of this paper is put on the scheduling subproblem. We propose a mixed integer programming model for this subproblem and present a location-allocation heuristic. The results of extensive experiments on real-world instances show that the proposed heuristic produces high-quality solutions.
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Authors
Matthias Bender, Anne Meyer, Jörg Kalcsics, Stefan Nickel,