title: Optimization of municipal solid waste collection and transportation routes.
abstract: Optimization of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and transportation through source separation becomes one of the major concerns in the MSW management system design, due to the fact that the existing MSW management systems suffer by the high collection and transportation cost. Generally, in a city different waste sources scatter throughout the city in heterogeneous way that increase waste collection and transportation cost in the waste management system. Therefore, a shortest waste collection and transportation strategy can effectively reduce waste collection and transportation cost. In this paper, we propose an optimal MSW collection and transportation scheme that focus on the problem of minimizing the length of each waste collection and transportation route. We first formulize the MSW collection and transportation problem into a mixed integer program. Moreover, we propose a heuristic solution for the waste collection and transportation problem that can provide an optimal way for waste collection and transportation. Extensive simulations and real testbed results show that the proposed solution can significantly improve the MSW performance. Results show that the proposed scheme is able to reduce more than 30% of the total waste collection path length.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India. Electronic address: swapan2009sajal@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Swapan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India. Electronic address: bidyut53@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Bidyut Kr
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Bhattacharyya
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D002958:City Planning; D007194:India; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000191:economics*; D014186:Transportation; D018505:Waste Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D062611:Solid Waste
keywords: Collection; Route optimization; Solid waste; Transfer; Transportation