The transportation of municipal solid waste (MSW) and the selection of optimal locations for MSW landfills and transfer stations are considered the most important issues in every MSW management system. This paper presents a modeling tool to aid in the design of a MSW transportation system and for the identification of transfer station and landfill optimal locations using a multi-objective mathematical model that minimizes investment, operational and transportation costs, number of transportation vehicles and the emissions of pollutants. Matlab was used for the prgramming of the developed model enabling rapid yet realistic analysis of the MSW transportation systems, and can be used for analyzing either existing or proposed design systems. In order to demonstrate the principles of the model and the feasibility of its application, it is applied on a hypothetical example that represents a situation of a MSW management system composed of existing and planned facilities. A sensitivity analysis concluded that the use of compacting vehicles leads to a significant decrease in the number of vehicles and GHG emissions.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Modeling Tool for the Design of Municipal Solid Waste Transportation Systems


    Additional title:

    Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.



    Conference:

    International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development ; 2022 ; Rabat, Morocco May 22, 2022 - May 27, 2022



    Publication date :

    2023-06-12


    Size :

    13 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





    Project of a container for transportation of solid municipal waste by rail

    Balalaev, A. N. / Starodvorskaya, A. N. | American Institute of Physics | 2023


    WASTE TRANSPORTATION TOOL AND WASTE TRANSPORTATION METHOD

    OKADA HIROSHI / HIRANO TATSUYUKI / TAKAGISHI TAKESHI et al. | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access