Pareto frontier analyses based decision making tool for transportation of hazardous waste.
Transportation of hazardous wastes through a region poses immense threat on the development along its road network. The risk to the population, exposed to such activities, has been documented in the past. However, a comprehensive framework for routing hazardous wastes has often been overlooked. A regional Hazardous Waste Management scheme should incorporate a comprehensive framework for hazardous waste transportation. This framework would incorporate the various stakeholders involved in decision making. Hence, a multi-objective approach is required to safeguard the interest of all the concerned stakeholders. The objective of this study is to design a methodology for routing of hazardous wastes between the generating units and the disposal facilities through a capacity constrained network. The proposed methodology uses posteriori method with multi-objective approach to find non-dominated solutions for the system consisting of multiple origins and destinations. A case study of transportation of hazardous wastes in Kolkata Metropolitan Area has also been provided to elucidate the methodology.
Department of Architecture & Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. arup.archi@gmail.com
Arup
A
Das
T N
TN
Mazumder
A K
AK
Gupta
D003657:Decision Making; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006256:Hazardous Waste; D007194:India; D014186:Transportation
D006256:Hazardous Waste