An automated decision support tool for prisoner transportation in The Netherlands (demonstration)

An automated decision support tool for prisoner transportation in The Netherlands (demonstration)

Christiaens, J.
Wauters, T.
Vanden Berghe, G.
De Wispelaere, A.

2013-11-08

DV & O is responsible for prisoner transportation in The Netherlands. The organization needs to solve a vehicle routing problem with time windows [2], where prisoners have to be picked up and delivered while respecting capacity and safety constraints. A daily demand of about 700 prisoner transportations yields a very complex combinatorial problem, solved by three full time planners. A new heuristic approach, developed in cooperation with Conundra, will be demonstrated. The heuristic enables computing a routing solution for the prisoner transportation problem in less than 100 seconds with a potential to a significant cost reduction.

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(c) 2013 Christiaens, J.; Wauters, T.; Vanden Berghe, G.; De Wispelaere, A.