Research Article

A Two-Phase Heuristic Algorithm for the Problem of Scheduling and Vehicle Routing for Delivery of Medication to Patients

Table 3


Frequency function for each customer ; may be weekly, biweekly or monthly.

Frequency normalization function, transforms any working day of month and standardizes it to its parallel working day according to the frequency of customer .

Demand of customer .

Service time of customer .

Mean time estimator for the set of routes, obtained from: 

Coordinates and for customer .


Center for each coordinate, defined as the average of the sum of the and values.