Solving a Solid Waste Collection Real Problem
The large scale selective waste routing process congregates a lot of information and is subject to a huge number of constraints, which makes it a hard problem to solve by exact methods.
This project is based on a real case scenario for one of the most important selective waste Portuguese operators.
We focus on the Vehicle Routing Problem optimization using heuristics. The estimation of the solid waste generation is based on a model using demographic and economic data.
Preliminary results will be presented and discussed.
Keywords: Environmental Management, Routing, Forecasting
That’s the abstract that has been accepted in the 24th European Conference on Operational Research, Euro XXIV Lisbon.
It’s a three day (July 12 – 14 2010) event where I expect to learn a lot and present, for the first time, my almost finished master thesis.
Euro 2010 Lisbon here I go!
