AbstractThis paper presents a vehicle routing approach for the transport of end-of-life consumer electronic goods for recycling in South Korea. The objective is to minimize the distance of transportation of end-of-life goods collected by local authorities and major manufacturers’ distribution centers to four regional recycling centers located. A vehicle routing problem is constructed for each regional center, and a Tabu search is applied to solve it. Computational results using field data show that the method outperforms existing approaches to reverse logistics.
Vehicle routing in reverse logistics for recycling end-of-life consumer electronic goods in South Korea
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment ; 14 , 5 ; 291-299
2009-01-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2011
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