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An Application of Vehicle-Routing Methodology to Large-Scale Larvicide Control Programs

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  • Marius Solomon

    (Management Science Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA)

  • Alain Chalifour

    (Département de Mathématiques et Informatique, Université du Quebec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, Canada, G9A 5H7)

  • Jacques Desrosiers

    (GERAD and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montréal, Canada, H3T 1V6)

  • Jacques Boisvert

    (Département de Chimie-Biologie, Université du Quebec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada, G9A 5H7)

Abstract

Because black flies transmit disease-producing parasites, many countries try to control them by treating their breeding sites. We designed a strategy to minimize larvicide treatment costs. It involves the minimization of the larvicide used and the number of injection points, achieved by combining a mortality model of larvae, a model for the behavior of the larvicide in water-courses, and a shortest-path model. The strategy also involves the minimization of the flight time for the helicopters used to deploy larvicide, performed by a state-of-the-art heuristic. This method showed potential savings of $100,000 per year on a trial three-day circuit for one helicopter, issued by the onchocerciasis control program (OCP) aerial operations in Western Africa.

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  • Marius Solomon & Alain Chalifour & Jacques Desrosiers & Jacques Boisvert, 1992. "An Application of Vehicle-Routing Methodology to Large-Scale Larvicide Control Programs," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 22(3), pages 88-99, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:22:y:1992:i:3:p:88-99
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.22.3.88
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    2. Jinming Liu & Guoting Zhang & Lining Xing & Weihua Qi & Yingwu Chen, 2022. "An Exact Algorithm for Multi-Task Large-Scale Inter-Satellite Routing Problem with Time Windows and Capacity Constraints," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(21), pages 1-24, October.
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