TY - GEN
T1 - The Vehicle-based Service Routing Problem
AU - Pizzinini, Clemens
AU - Wettig, Theresa
AU - Ziegler, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Vehicles can be considered as mobile platforms that enable the provision of public services like education, healthcare, or energy without stationary infrastructure. In particular, rural regions across sub-Saharan Africa demand for such flexible solutions as demand is scattered across vast regions, making investments in fixed facilities economically infeasible. Nevertheless, before entering a new region, vehicle fleet operators require an estimate of the costs in relation to the addressable demand to validate the investment case. This paper introduces a novel cost model for heterogeneous vehicle-based service systems. The proposed mixed integer programming problem considers strategic, tactical, and operational planning decisions that determine the cost of supplying a target area with a set of services provided by a fleet of vehicles. To test the proposed model, we apply it to a case study in Ethiopia for three public services. Based on the results, fleet operators gain insights into the fleet size, fleet mix, and associated operating costs.
AB - Vehicles can be considered as mobile platforms that enable the provision of public services like education, healthcare, or energy without stationary infrastructure. In particular, rural regions across sub-Saharan Africa demand for such flexible solutions as demand is scattered across vast regions, making investments in fixed facilities economically infeasible. Nevertheless, before entering a new region, vehicle fleet operators require an estimate of the costs in relation to the addressable demand to validate the investment case. This paper introduces a novel cost model for heterogeneous vehicle-based service systems. The proposed mixed integer programming problem considers strategic, tactical, and operational planning decisions that determine the cost of supplying a target area with a set of services provided by a fleet of vehicles. To test the proposed model, we apply it to a case study in Ethiopia for three public services. Based on the results, fleet operators gain insights into the fleet size, fleet mix, and associated operating costs.
KW - fleet cost model
KW - product-service-systems
KW - vehicle routing problem
KW - vehicle-based services
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85192837728&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICTLE59670.2023.10508844
DO - 10.1109/ICTLE59670.2023.10508844
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85192837728
T3 - 2023 11th International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering, ICTLE 2023
SP - 66
EP - 72
BT - 2023 11th International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering, ICTLE 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering, ICTLE 2023
Y2 - 25 August 2023 through 27 August 2023
ER -