The transportation of biomedical samples is a key component of healthcare supply chains. The samples are collected, consolidated into cooler boxes, and then transported to be analyzed in a specialized laboratory. Since ...

. This constraint, along with the time windows and multiple visits required by the collection centers, greatly complicate this vehicle routing problem. Anaya Arenas et al. 2015 proposed two mathematical models and fast heuristics to solve the biomedical samples...

Vehicle routing problem with time window constraints is an extension of the

original vehicle routing problem. It is a well-known NP-hard problem which

has several real- life applications. This paper presents simulated annealing...

Vehicle routing problem with time window constraints is an extension of the original vehicle routing problem. It is a well-known NP-hard problem which has several real- life applications. This paper presents simulated annealing metaheuristic...

. This paper introduces a model for home care services planning. The proposed model considers all quality criteria such as care continuity, time windows, and skill matching simultaneously. Moreover, periodic demand has been incorporated into the model which...

continuity. Also patient time windows and scenarios should be respected. We develop a mixed integer linear programming model to solve the problem. Since the developed model includes scheduling, routing and assignment problems, exact methods are not suitable...