| dc.description.abstract | Humanitarian logistics is an interest topic of various researchers and universities for many
years. Within the field, food aid is one of the topics that receives more attention after Covid
19 pandemic in Vietnam. During lockdowns and limit access to food period, food bank has
played an important role in providing food for the poor around the city. This thesis is aim
to develop transportation schedule for Food Bank Vietnam Warehouse in Ho Chi Minh
City to both collect food from various collection sites and deliver food aid to humanitarian
organizations located around the city in respective to cost effective collection and delivery
strategies. Due to limited source of humanity and vehicle, cost effective is translated into
the minimum distance travel for the transportation schedule. This thesis proposed satellite
locations called co-located sites where Food Bank come to collect food aid and deliver it
to humanitarian organizations in packages after sorted in the warehouse. A capacitated set
covering model is developed to determine the allocation of an organization to a co-locating
site considering vehicle capacity and food spoilage time constraints. Using the optimal
assignment of organization to co-locating sites, a weekly collection and delivery
transportation schedule to each site is developed regardful of constraints on operator
workday, collection frequency, delivery frequency and vehicle capacity | en_US |
