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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120443
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A Vehicle Routing Problem for the Collection of Medical Samples at Home: Case Study of Morocco

Author 1: Ettazi Haitam
Author 2: Rafalia Najat
Author 3: Jaafar Abouchabaka

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 4, 2021.

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Abstract: This paper aims to solve the problem of sampling and collecting blood and/ or urine tubes from sick people at home via a medical staff (nurse/ caregiver) to the laboratory in an optimal way. To ensure good management, several constraints must be taken into account, namely: staff schedules, patient preferences, the maximum delay time for a blood sample, etc. This problem is considered as a vehicle routing problem with time windows, preference and priority according to urgent cases. We first proposed a mathematical formulation of the problem by using a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) as well as various metaheuristics. Also, we applied this method to a real instance of a laboratory in Morocco (Témara) named Laboratory BioGuich, which gave the most optimal results.

Keywords: Optimization; metaheuristics; vehicle routing problem; allocation and planning; home care

Ettazi Haitam, Rafalia Najat and Jaafar Abouchabaka, “A Vehicle Routing Problem for the Collection of Medical Samples at Home: Case Study of Morocco” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(4), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120443

@article{Haitam2021,
title = {A Vehicle Routing Problem for the Collection of Medical Samples at Home: Case Study of Morocco},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120443},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120443},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {4},
author = {Ettazi Haitam and Rafalia Najat and Jaafar Abouchabaka}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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