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Excerpt from Strategies for Sizing Service Territories
Optimum size of supplier regions. Furthermore, the major constraint in their approach, which is typical Of vehicle routing approaches (see Bodin et. A1. Is in the aggregate size Of a delivery load (e.g. Weight or volume). We have observed that in many service delivery operations, the key constraints are work load Of the delivery person (which we refer to as the mixer). For example, in delivering mail to customers, the major limitation on the number Of stops a driver can make is his allotted time rather than the amount Of mail he can put into his vehicle. While there superficially does not appear to be any difference between these two types Of constraints (size or time), the time constraint is based on the time it takes the driver to drive to his delivery region while the size constraint is not. This type Of time constraint yields an entirely different type Of optimality condition for the number of facilities.
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