1. Use of Electric Vehicles in Home-Health Care Routing Problems: Analysis of a Multi-objective Approach under Uncertainty
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Lionel Amodeo, Oumayma Bahri, El-Ghazali Talbi, Laboratoire d'Optimisation des Systèmes Industriels (LOSI), Laboratoire Informatique et Société Numérique (LIST3N), Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)-Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), Inria Lille - Nord Europe, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), and Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
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Waiting time ,021103 operations research ,Operations research ,Computer science ,020209 energy ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Optimal planning ,Travel cost ,[INFO.INFO-RO]Computer Science [cs]/Operations Research [cs.RO] ,02 engineering and technology ,Fuzzy logic ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Home health ,Objective approach ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Optimization methods ,Routing (electronic design automation) ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
Our aim in this study is to propose a novel approach for optimizing a variant of the home health care routing problem, in which the health-care workers perform a requested number of visits to patients by using electric vehicles. Our approach on the one hand uses multi-objective optimization methods to find optimal planning routes of EVs and on the other hand deals with uncertainty in some major problem constraints. The goal is to help decision makers choosing appropriate routes; while minimising the cost of electric vehicular displacements in terms of: the total travel cost for all home-health workers and the waiting time for all patients. Moreover, we consider in our problem the fuzzy nature of some major constraints.
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- 2021
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