Operating room planning and surgical case scheduling: a review of literature

S Zhu, W Fan, S Yang, J Pei, PM Pardalos - Journal of Combinatorial …, 2019‏ - Springer
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of research on operating room planning and
scheduling problems. Aiming to give a comprehensive classification on the studied …

Scheduling operating rooms: achievements, challenges and pitfalls

M Samudra, C Van Riet, E Demeulemeester… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - Springer
In hospitals, the operating room (OR) is a particularly expensive facility and thus efficient
scheduling is imperative. This can be greatly supported by using advanced methods that are …

Chapter 6: pickup-and-delivery problems for goods transportation

M Battarra, JF Cordeau, M Iori - Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and …, 2014‏ - SIAM
6.1▪ Introduction Pickup-and-Delivery Problems (PDPs) constitute an important family of
routing problems in which goods or passengers have to be transported from different origins …

Operating room planning and scheduling for outpatients and inpatients: A review and future research

L Wang, E Demeulemeester, N Vansteenkiste… - Operations Research for …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In hospitals, surgeries are treated either on an outpatient or on an inpatient basis.
Outpatients are normally routine patients that enter and leave the hospital on the same day …

Chapter 7: Pickup-and-delivery problems for people transportation

KF Doerner, JJ Salazar-González - Vehicle Routing: Problems, Methods, and …, 2014‏ - SIAM
7.1▪ Introduction Modern societies demand transportation systems that offer high efficiency
and comfort but also minimal noise, pollution, cost, and delays. These requirements apply to …

Appointment scheduling and routing optimization of attended home delivery system with random customer behavior

S Han, L Zhao, K Chen, Z Luo, D Mishra - European Journal of Operational …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Attended home delivery (AHD) has been identified as a crucial delivery mode of the last mile
problem. As the name implies, AHD involves delivery of needed goods at the customer's …

Integrated planning in hospitals: a review

S Rachuba, M Reuter-Oppermann, C Thielen - OR Spectrum, 2024‏ - Springer
Efficient planning of scarce resources in hospitals is a challenging task for which a large
variety of Operations Research and Management Science approaches have been …

Integrated timetabling and vehicle scheduling with balanced departure times

V Schmid, JF Ehmke - OR spectrum, 2015‏ - Springer
Sequential planning of public transportation services can lead to inefficient vehicle
schedules. Integrating timetabling and vehicle scheduling, the vehicle scheduling problem …

Real-time management of intra-hospital patient transport requests

VM Ton, NCO da Silva, A Ruiz, JE Pécora Jr… - Health Care …, 2024‏ - Springer
This paper addresses the management of patients' transportation requests within a hospital,
a very challenging problem where requests must be scheduled among the available porters …

Hybrid large neighborhood search for the bus rapid transit route design problem

V Schmid - European Journal of Operational Research, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Due to an increasing demand for public transportation and intra-urban mobility, an efficient
organization of public transportation has gained significant importance in the last decades …