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Home Health Care Routing & Scheduling: Benchmark instances
In a recent review on home health care routing (HHC) and scheduling procedures, an overview of publicy available benchmark instances was provided. In the meantime, new data has been published and links altered. Consequently, this post provides an updated list of benchmark instances available online. Please note that this list is no longer updated. Contact…
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Simulations to Improve Flood Response Skills
To respond to complex river floodings, professional training to foster the comprehension of systemic behaviors and interdependencies is crucial. Simulations have great potential to enable such insights by allowing decision-makers to investigate different scenarios in a risk-free environment.
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Evaluations of Car and Trip Sharing Systems
Providing services at customers’ homes in urban city center is a challenging tasks. Congestion leads to high uncertainty in travel times and even if finally one arrives at his/her destination, the difficulty may have only just begun as one could end up circling the area multiple times to find an available parking spot. Consequently, substanitial…
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System Thinking for Disaster Response
To respond to a disaster and to mitigate impact and damages, complex and time-critical situations need to be analyzed quickly. To facilitate understanding, education and constant training of relief forces are crucial. Operations research tools can help to improve decison-making skills by supporting system thinking.
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Routing & Scheduling of Home Health Care Services
Demographic shifts, changes in family structure, the desire to ‘grow old at home’ and cost benefits are just some reasons why the demand for home health care (HHC) services is likely to continue to increase substantially over the next years. Within HHC operations, various interesting research question exists. A recent review article on HHC routing…
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