| dc.description.abstract | Home Health Care (HHC) services include the delivery to customers for many kind of
tasks such as medical, nursing or homecare directly to their home. The Vehicle Routing
Problem in Home Health Care Services (VRPHHCS) has become one of the major
consideration for many HHC service providers in today’s competitive market. They
have to serve customers in the most effective way, considering the on time and cost
saving. This thesis enlarges the VRPHHCS for mother and newborn by developing a
mathematical model in order to minimize all caregivers’ travel distance but still meet
the balanced workload, satisfy clients’ requirement and afford caregivers’ lunch break.
The minimum number of required caregivers is also considered as the objective. Due to
the complexity of the proposed model and the large size of real dataset, another solution
approach named Clustering Algorithm is used to come up with results in a reasonable
computation time. | en_US |
