Delivery volume improvement for planning medication distribution

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3505-3509

  Herrmann, Jeffrey W ^a   Lu, Sara ^a   Schalliol, Kristen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeland security; Logistics and inventory; Scheduling; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

HOMELAND SECURITY; INVENTORY SCHEDULING; ROUTING AND SCHEDULING; TWO STAGE;

CYBERNETICS; NETWORK SECURITY; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 74849109105     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346773     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "Key Facts about the Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI)," http://www.bt.cdc.gov/CRI/facts. asp, accessed September 16, 2008.
2. M.S. Daskin and E.H. Stern, "Hierarchical objective set covering model for emergency medical service vehicle deployment," Transportation Science, vol. 15, pp. 137 - 152, 1981.
3. M.O. Ball and F.L. Lin, "A reliability model applied to emergency service vehicle location," Operations Research, vol. 41, pp. 18 - 36, 1993.
4. A. Ceyhun, H. Selim, and I. Ozkarahan, "A fuzzy multi-objective covering-based vehicle location model for emergency services," Computers and Operations Research, vol. 34, pp. 705 - 726, 2007.
5. R. Sivanandan, A.G. Hobeika, S.A. Ardekani, and P.B. Lockwood, "Heuristic shortest-path method for emergency vehicle assignment - a study on the Mexico City network," Transportation Research Record, no. 1168, 1988, pp. 86 - 91, 1988.
6. A. Weintraub, J. Aboud, C. Fernandez, G. Laporte, and E. Ramirez, "An emergency vehicle dispatching system for an electric utility in Chile," Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 50, pp. 690-696, 1999.
7. A. Haghani, Q. Tian, and H. Hu, "Simulation model for real-time emergency vehicle dispatching and routing," Transportation Research Record, no. 1882, pp. 176 - 183, 2004.
8. M. Dror, M. Ball, and B. Golden, "Computational comparisons of algorithms for the inventory routing problem," Annals of Operations Research, vol. 4, pp. 3 - 23, 1985.
9. A. Campbell, L. Clarke, A.J. Kleywegt, and M.W.P. Savelsbergh, "The inventory routing problem," in Fleet Management and Logistics, T.G. Crainic and G. Laporte, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 95-114, 1998.
10. F. Baita, W. Ukovich, R. Pesenti, and D. Favaretto, "Dynamic routing-and-inventory problems: A review," Transportation Research, Part A, vol. 32, pp. 585 - 598, 1998.
11. N.H. Moin and S. Salhi, "Inventory routing problems: A logistical overview," Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 58, pp. 1185 - 1194, 2007.
12. Z.-L. Chen, "Integrated production and outbound distribution scheduling: Review and extensions," Operations Research, in press.
13. J.W. Herrmann, S. Lu, and K. Schalliol, "A Routing and Scheduling Approach for Planning Medication Distribution," Proceedings of the 2009 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, Florida, May 30 - June 3, 2009.
14. P. Toth and D. Vigo, "Exact Solution of the Vehicle Routing Problem," in Fleet Management and Logistics, T.G. Crainic and G. Laporte, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 1-31, 1998.
15. C2Logix, "SNSTourSolver," http://cdcstockpilerouting.c2logix. com/ Citrix/AccessPlatform/auth/login.aspx, accessed July 25, 2008.