Spatial organization of public services: models and applications

Location decisions are crucial in the spatial organization in both public and private sectors as they can have a long term impact on operational performances and on service levels. Social cost minimization, universality of services and equity, expressed in terms of users' accessibility, are the main objectives in public services contexts. Nevertheless, the enduring trend of public expenditures revision poses, also in the public sectors, the need to pursue objectives of economic efficiency. In the literature, two families of optimization problems are typically used to address these problems, namely Facility Location Problems (FLPs) and Districting Problems (DPs). The aim of this thesis is to show how FLPs and DPs can be used to underpin spatial organization processes of public services, providing analytical models able to assist the decision making. To this end, novel mathematical models are developed with application to the healthcare and postal service sectors. In particular, a hierarchical facility location model is formulated to reorganize an existing regional Blood Management System (BMS) while an integrated location-districting model is proposed for the organization of postal collection operations in urban areas. A constructive heuristic procedure is also devised to solve the latter problem. Extensive computational experiments are realized to validate the proposed models and to show their capability to provide insightful managerial implications. Finally, the thesis aims at filling another existing gap in the literature due to the absence of stochastic models for DPs. Hence, a two-stage stochastic program for districting is introduced and tested on real georgaphic data. Several extensions of the proposed modeling framework are also discussed

Diseño de una técnica de solución para la versión estocástica del problema de zonificación en el contexto de atención médica domiciliaria

La partición de un territorio en zonas o problema de distracción (DP) es una decisión fundamental debido a su impacto en las operaciones posteriores. En el contexto de la atención medica domiciliaria (HTC), un territorio se divide en zonas para distribuir el personal médico de modo que la demanda del paciente se satisfaga de manera ideal. Esta tesis propone una técnica de solución al problema de distracción aplicado en una entidad proveedora de servicios HHC en Cali(Colombia) desde un enfoque que integra las decisiones tácticas (como DP) con las decisiones operativas (como el enrutamiento del personal). Este enfoque apunta a lograr una decisión táctica robusta, cuyo desempeño se evaluará a nivel operacional en términos del costo de operación del sistema en una instancia real.Ingeniero (a) IndustrialPregrad

Mathematical Methods and Operation Research in Logistics, Project Planning, and Scheduling

In the last decade, the Industrial Revolution 4.0 brought flexible supply chains and flexible design projects to the forefront. Nevertheless, the recent pandemic, the accompanying economic problems, and the resulting supply problems have further increased the role of logistics and supply chains. Therefore, planning and scheduling procedures that can respond flexibly to changed circumstances have become more valuable both in logistics and projects. There are already several competing criteria of project and logistic process planning and scheduling that need to be reconciled. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that even more emphasis needs to be placed on taking potential risks into account. Flexibility and resilience are emphasized in all decision-making processes, including the scheduling of logistic processes, activities, and projects

Annual report of council, departments, boards, committees, and commissions of the town of Hooksett, New Hampshire fiscal year ending June 30, 2006.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

Senate journal, January session of 1971 volume II.

Titles and imprints vary; Some volumes include miscellaneous state documents and reports; Rules of the Senat

Not With the Fist: A Study of the Assimilation and Acculturation of the Mexican-American Population of San Bernardino, California

The body of this paper is intended to be a book manuscript. It is hoped that its readers will be those who work directly with Mexican-Americans--employers, school-teachers, law-enforcement officers, social-workers, church leaders, parent-teacher groups, union officials, public agency employees, and many others in communities in our Southwest. It is also hoped that the book will reach and interest a general reading public in the United States. It has become almost axiomatic to say that no minority problem is, to-day, merely regional or even national in scope. The currency of the axiom by no means alters its essential truth. Our continued friendship with Latin America, a mutual necessity, depends, to a greater degree than most persons in the United States realize, upon our treatment of Latin-American minorities within the United States. Our sins of omission and commission toward these minorities make headlines in Latin-American capitals, where there is a realistic tendency to judge the validity of our international intentions by what we do in our own backyard

Senate journal vol. II, 1977 session.

Titles and imprints vary; Some volumes include miscellaneous state documents and reports; Rules of the Senat

State of New Hampshire. Reports, 1914, volume III.- Annual

Sometimes issued both annually and biennially; Each vol. contains the reports of various departments of the government of the state of New Hampshire; Includes attorneys general\u27s opinion