TY - JOUR
T1 - A novel methodology for designing a household waste collection system for insular zones
AU - Miranda, Pablo A.
AU - Blazquez, Carola A.
AU - Vergara, Rodrigo
AU - Weitzler, Sebastian
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Grupo de Residuos Solidos (Solid Waste Group) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso ( http://www.grs-pucv.cl ) for their valuable help and for providing data employed in this research. This research was financially supported by Chilean National Fund for Scientific & Technological Development (FONDECYT Project N° 1140811).
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - This paper addresses the problem of designing a household waste collection system for rural insular areas using a barge for transportation, based on a novel mixed integer programming model that simultaneously integrates decisions of waste collection sites selection within the islands to be served, visit schedule for each selected collection site, and multi-period vehicle routing. An application to a real-world instance consisting of small rural islands located in the south of Chile shows the effectiveness and complexity of the model, along with the advantages of using a waste compactor instead of transporting the waste using bins onboard a barge.
AB - This paper addresses the problem of designing a household waste collection system for rural insular areas using a barge for transportation, based on a novel mixed integer programming model that simultaneously integrates decisions of waste collection sites selection within the islands to be served, visit schedule for each selected collection site, and multi-period vehicle routing. An application to a real-world instance consisting of small rural islands located in the south of Chile shows the effectiveness and complexity of the model, along with the advantages of using a waste compactor instead of transporting the waste using bins onboard a barge.
KW - Insular rural household waste
KW - Periodic vehicle routing problem
KW - Waste Collection System Design
KW - Waste collection site selection
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tre.2015.02.019
DO - 10.1016/j.tre.2015.02.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84925649410
SN - 1366-5545
VL - 77
SP - 227
EP - 247
JO - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
JF - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
ER -