1. Optimization of municipal solid waste transportation by integrating GIS analysis, equation-based, and agent-based model
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Khanh Nguyen-Trong, Anh Nguyen-Thi-Ngoc, Van Dinh-Thi-Hai, and Doanh Nguyen-Ngoc
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Paper ,Engineering ,Municipal solid waste ,020209 energy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Population ,Context (language use) ,Waste collection ,Transportation ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Solid Waste ,01 natural sciences ,Civil engineering ,Scarcity ,Waste Management ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Computer Simulation ,Road map ,Cities ,education ,Waste Management and Disposal ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,media_common ,Agent-based model ,education.field_of_study ,Models, Statistical ,business.industry ,Refuse Disposal ,Waste generation ,Vietnam ,Geographic Information Systems ,business ,Algorithms - Abstract
The amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) has been increasing steadily over the last decade by reason of population rising and waste generation rate. In most of the urban areas, disposal sites are usually located outside of the urban areas due to the scarcity of land. There is no fixed route map for transportation. The current waste collection and transportation are already overloaded arising from the lack of facilities and insufficient resources. In this paper, a model for optimizing municipal solid waste collection will be proposed. Firstly, the optimized plan is developed in a static context, and then it is integrated into a dynamic context using multi-agent based modelling and simulation. A case study related to Hagiang City, Vietnam, is presented to show the efficiency of the proposed model. From the optimized results, it has been found that the cost of the MSW collection is reduced by 11.3%.
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- 2016