Continuous approximation

Approximations for Planar Covering Routes: an Analysis and Application to Public School Transportation

  • Dipayan Banerjee
  • Karen Smilowitz
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Production and Logistics, Transportation Tags , , ,

    Public school bus routes can change from year to year as students and their home locations change. However, school administrators benefit from the ability to predict future transportation needs on multi-year time scales. With this motivation in mind, this paper develops planning models for school bus routing when student locations are not known with certainty. … Read more

    Strategic design of collection and delivery point networks for urban parcel distribution

  • Benjamin Rojas
  • Homero Larrain
  • Mathias A. Klapp
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Production and Logistics, Transportation Tags , , ,

    Collection and delivery points (CDPs) allow logistics operators to consolidate multiple customer request deliveries on a single vehicle stop, reducing distribution costs. However, for customers to adopt CDPs, they must be willing to travel to a nearby CDP to pick up their parcels. This choice depends on the customer’s personal preferences, the proximity of CDPs, … Read more