TY - JOUR
T1 - Vehicle route optimization for rfid integrated waste collection system
AU - Ustundag, Alp
AU - Cevikcan, Emre
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology has been in use for several decades to track and identify goods, assets, and even living things. Recently, however, RFID has generated widespread corporate interest as a means to waste management performance. In this paper, a vehicle routing model for waste collection is developed. The model not only uses precise data with respect to both quantity and location via RFID technology, but also includes single vehicle with a pre-determined capacity, multiple tours, and locations with deterministic waste quantities. Then a numerical example is solved via Dash Optimization XPress Solver to find an optimal route considering the locations of waste bins and the waste quantities. The impact of changing waste quantity on the operation cost is investigated considering the distance of the waste bins using variance analysis (ANOVA). With this method, municipality authorities can better manage itineraries and manpower, and have a monitoring system for the volume of the waste produced in the region of their responsibility.
AB - Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology has been in use for several decades to track and identify goods, assets, and even living things. Recently, however, RFID has generated widespread corporate interest as a means to waste management performance. In this paper, a vehicle routing model for waste collection is developed. The model not only uses precise data with respect to both quantity and location via RFID technology, but also includes single vehicle with a pre-determined capacity, multiple tours, and locations with deterministic waste quantities. Then a numerical example is solved via Dash Optimization XPress Solver to find an optimal route considering the locations of waste bins and the waste quantities. The impact of changing waste quantity on the operation cost is investigated considering the distance of the waste bins using variance analysis (ANOVA). With this method, municipality authorities can better manage itineraries and manpower, and have a monitoring system for the volume of the waste produced in the region of their responsibility.
KW - RFID
KW - Vehicle routing
KW - Waste management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58149218322&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1142/S0219622008003125
DO - 10.1142/S0219622008003125
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:58149218322
SN - 0219-6220
VL - 7
SP - 611
EP - 625
JO - International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making
JF - International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making
IS - 4
ER -
