Capacitated location of collection sites in an urban waste management system

Waste Management

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1291-1296

  Ghiani, Gianpaolo ^a,b   Laganà, Demetrio ^c   Manni, Emanuele ^a,b   Triki, Chefi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b Itaca Srl   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Location; Urban waste management

Indexed keywords

CAPACITATED LOCATION; COMPLEX TASK; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONSTRUCTIVE HEURISTIC; DECISION MAKERS; HEURISTIC APPROACH; HEURISTICS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE CONSTRAINTS; SOLUTION QUALITY; TACTICAL DECISIONS; URBAN WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE COLLECTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOCATION;

BINS;

HEURISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ITALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; URBAN AREA; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; ITALY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TRANSPORTATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ITALY; LECCE; NARDO; PUGLIA;

EID: 84861577961     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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