Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5110526 Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2016 23 Pages PDF
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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