Abstract:Non-profit organizations mitigate the problem of food insecurity by collecting surplus food from donors and delivering it to underprivileged people. In this paper, we focus on a single non-profit organization located in Makkah city (Saudi Arabia), referred to as Ekram. The current surplus food pickup/delivery and operational routing model of Ekram organization have several apparent deficiencies. First, we model the surplus pickup/delivery and operational routing model as a vehicle routing problem (VRP). Then, … Show more
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