标题: Subregion districting analysis for municipal solid waste collection privatization
作者: Lin, Hung-Yueh
Kao, Jehng-Jung
环境工程研究所
Institute of Environmental Engineering
公开日期: 1-一月-2008
摘要: Privatization of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection can improve service quality and reduce cost. To reduce the risk of an incapable company serving an entire collection area and to establish a competitive market, a large collection area should be divided into two or more subregions, with each subregion served by a different company. The MSW subregion districting is generally done manually, based on the planner's intuition. Major drawbacks of a manual approach include the creation of a districting plan with poor road network integrity for which it is difficult to design an efficient collection route. The other drawbacks are difficulty in finding the optimal districting plan and the lack of a way to consistently measure the differences among subregions to avoid unfair competition. To determine an MSW collection subregion districting plan, this study presents a mixed-integer optimization model that incorporates factors such as compactness, road network integrity, collection cost, and regional proximity. Two cases are presented to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model. In both cases, districting plans with good road network integrity and regional proximity have been generated successfully.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3155/1047-3289.58.1.104
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/9803
ISSN: 1047-3289
DOI: 10.3155/1047-3289.58.1.104
期刊: JOURNAL OF THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
Volume: 58
Issue: 1
起始页: 104
结束页: 111
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