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Optimization refers to the process of identifying and selecting the best (most optimal) solution from a range of possible options to meet a specific criteria, for example minimizing costs, reducing emissions, maximizing revenue, or eliminating inefficiencies.
Start Date: April 2019
Funding: UW Medicine Department of Laboratory Medicine
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Anne Goodchild
Summary:
The Urban Freight Lab primarily focused on optimizing UW Department of Laboratory Medicine's 12 routes per day, moving lab specimens and conducting departmental business. The work will optimize the minimize both the expected lead time (from the time the specimens are ready for pick up to the time they are delivered to the lab for testing) and the extent to which couriers work outside of their maximum shift durations.
The Urban Freight Lab primarily focused on optimizing UW Department of Laboratory Medicine's 12 routes per day, moving lab specimens and conducting departmental business. The work will optimize the minimize both the expected lead time (from the time the specimens are ready for pick up to the time they are delivered to the lab for testing) and the extent to which couriers work outside of their maximum shift durations.