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Parcel Delivery Services: A Sectorization Approach with Simulation
Operational Research. APDIO 2022. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
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Abstract
Sectorization problems, also known as districting or territory design, deal with grouping a set of previously defined basic units, such as points or small geographical areas, into a fixed number of sectors or responsibility areas. Usually, there are multiple criteria to be satisfied regarding the geographic characteristics of the territory or the planning purposes. This work addresses a case study of parcel delivery services in the region of Porto, Portugal. Using knowledge about the daily demand
in each basic unit (7-digit postal code), the authors analysed data and used it to simulate dynamically new daily demands according to the relative frequency of service in each basic unit and the statistical distribution of the number of parcels to be delivered in each basic unit. The sectorization of the postal codes is solved independently considering two objectives (equilibrium and compactness) using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) implemented in Python.
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Keywords
sectorization,delivery services,simulation,multiple criteria,genetic algorithms
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Mathematics - Natural Sciences
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| POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031671 | Comissão Europeia |
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