The investigation of a class of capacitated arc routing problems: the collection of garbage in developing countries.
The collection, transport and disposal of solid waste, which is a highly visible and important municipal service, involves a large expenditure but receives, scant attention. This problem is even more crucial for large cities in developing countries due to the hot weather. A constructive heuristic which takes into account the environmental aspect as well as the cost is proposed to solve the routing aspect of garbage collection. This is based on a look-ahead strategy which is enhanced by two additional mechanisms. Interesting results were obtained when tested on instances with and without the presence of the effect of the environment.
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Management Mathematics Group, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birimingham B15 2TT, UK.
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D002947:Cities; D002980:Climate; D003906:Developing Countries; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D005544:Forecasting; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012037:Refuse Disposal