Planning urban home services facilitating trip sharing and walking

What is it about?

Nurses in home health care primarily uses individual cars to visit clients. This publication develops a static solution procedures to facilitate trip sharing and walking in the industry. Therefore, synchronization constraints as well as multiple break and work regulations have to be considered.

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Why is it important?

As the demand for home services (e.g., home health care) is expected to increase substantially, both trip sharing and walking enables one to reduce the number of required vehicles to guarantee future service quality in urban settings. This work presents a solution procedure to investigate such settings.