Abstract This paper aims to assess the impact of using vehicles with multiple compartments in a recyclable waste collection system. Such systems perform single-material routes to collect three types of recyclable materials (paper, glass and plastic/metal), where vehicles with a single compartment are used. If vehicles with multi-compartments were used, two or even the three materials could be collected simultaneously without mixing them. A heuristic approach is developed to solve the multi-compartment vehicle routing problem and applied to a real waste collection system operating in Portugal.
Planning Collection Routes with Multi-compartment Vehicles
2015-01-01
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Memetic Algorithm , Vehicle Route Problem , Filling Rate , Capacitate Vehicle Route Problem , Packaging Waste Engineering , Computational Intelligence , Operations Research, Management Science , Operations Management , Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences , Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLANNING ROUTES FOR COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES
European Patent Office | 2019
|