Publication detail

Municipal Solid Waste Container Location Based on Walking Distance and Distribution of Population

NEVRLÝ, V. ŠOMPLÁK, R. KHÝR, L. SMEJKALOVÁ, V. JADRNÝ, J.

Original Title

Municipal Solid Waste Container Location Based on Walking Distance and Distribution of Population

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Cities around the world enlarge every single day and the production of various fractions of waste grows as well. The goal of waste separation and material recovery arising from novel directives of EU and legislation changes encourages the municipal administrators to support the suitable infrastructure of collection points. The decision regarding these points is an important task because their number is not the only indicator for higher separation rate. Inhabitants decide upon the walking distance to the closest collection point which was already presented in the public researches. However, collection points cannot be everywhere due to economic and aesthetic reasons. The aim of the paper is to propose an approach for locating collection points for municipal solid waste, taking into account the walking distance, the number of collection points and the utilization of installed capacities. The approach considers multiple criterions related to economic, social and environmental issues. This is achieved by proposing a mixed integer programming model. The calculation of walking distances is based on the air distance of the address points and the potential positions for the container location. The approach is presented in the case study for the municipality in the Czech Republic while locating mixed municipal waste containers. The model brings benefits in the form of increasing possibility of application since the number of separately collected waste fractions grows. It serves for stakeholders and municipal administrators for making decisions about purchasing a certain number of containers and its placement within the analysed area. Further development of the model can be focused on higher accuracy calculation of the walking distances or the distribution of inhabitants‘ regular pathways. Additionally, the research might be connected with the computation of changing ratio during time among waste fractions, which is caused by diverting from the mixed municipal waste.

Keywords

mixed integer linear programming; waste management; container location; municipal solid waste; multi-objective optimization

Authors

NEVRLÝ, V.; ŠOMPLÁK, R.; KHÝR, L.; SMEJKALOVÁ, V.; JADRNÝ, J.

Released

30. 10. 2019

Publisher

AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.

Location

Milano, Italy

ISBN

2283-9216

Periodical

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Year of study

76

Number

1

State

Republic of Italy

Pages from

553

Pages to

558

Pages count

6

URL

https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/CET1976093

BibTex

@article{BUT160057,
  author="Vlastimír {Nevrlý} and Radovan {Šomplák} and Lukáš {Khýr} and Veronika {Smejkalová} and Josef {Jadrný}",
  title="Municipal Solid Waste Container Location Based on Walking Distance and Distribution of Population",
  journal="Chemical Engineering Transactions",
  year="2019",
  volume="76",
  number="1",
  pages="553--558",
  doi="10.3303/CET1976093",
  issn="2283-9216",
  url="https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/CET1976093"
}