This paper addresses the problem of designing a household waste collection system for rural insular areas using a barge for transportation, based on a novel mixed integer programming model that simultaneously integrates decisions of waste collection sites selection within the islands to be...

In this study, a mobile blood collection system is designed with the primary objective of increasing blood collection levels. This design also takes into account operational costs to aim for collection of large amounts of blood at reasonable cost. Bloodmobiles perform direct tours to certain...

We propose a multi-depot location-routing model considering network failure, multiple uses of vehicles, and standard relief time. The model determines the locations of local depots and routing for last mile distribution after an earthquake. The model is extended to a two-stage stochastic program...

In a previous paper, we proposed two heuristic algorithms for the euclidean 2-period Balanced Travelling Salesman Problem (2B-TSP). In this problem, which arises from a similar one introduced by Butler et al., a certain number of customers must be visited at minimum total cost over a period of...