A simheuristic algorithm for time-dependent waste collection management with stochastic travel times

A major operational task in city logistics is related to waste collection. Due to large problem sizes and numerous constraints, the optimization of real-life waste collection problems on a daily basis requires the use of metaheuristic solving frameworks to generate near-optimal collection routes in...

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Autores: Gruler, Aljoscha, Perez-Navarro, Antoni, Calvet-Mir, Laura, Juan, Angel A.
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/127049
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/127049
http://doi.org/10.2436/20.8080.02.103
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:waste collection management
vehicle routing problem
stochastic optimization
simheuristics
biased randomization
case study
gestión de recolección de residuos
problema de generación de rutas de vehículos
optimización estocástica
simheurística
aleatorización sesgada
estudio de caso
gestió de recollida de residus
problema d&apos
encaminament de vehicles
optimització estocàstica
aleatorització esbiaixada
estudi de casos
Algorithms
Algorismes
Algoritmos
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Resumo:A major operational task in city logistics is related to waste collection. Due to large problem sizes and numerous constraints, the optimization of real-life waste collection problems on a daily basis requires the use of metaheuristic solving frameworks to generate near-optimal collection routes in low computation times. This paper presents a simheuristic algorithm for the time-dependent waste collection problem with stochastic travel times. By combining Monte Carlo simulation with a biased randomized iterated local search metaheuristic, time-varying and stochastic travel speeds between different network nodes are accounted for. The algorithm is tested using real instances in a medium-sized city in Spain.