Involving Motorbikes in Blood Pickup Services: A Mathematical Modelling Perspective

The inclusion of smaller-size vehicles to enhance the performance of logistics systems has been a new trend in logistics, spanning from bicycles to drones. On the other hand, the motorbike has long been known as a common transportation mode, especially in developing countries, which opens the possibility to implement this vehicle mode in a healthcare logistics environment. Therefore, in this article, we discuss the possibility to involve a motorbike in the blood pickup service system. Here, we propose to mathematically model the system as a blood pickup routing problem with heterogeneous vehicle modes (BPRP-HV). Numerical experiments are then conducted, and managerial insights are derived from the results.