Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Management Problems: A Literature Review

This paper presents a review of the available literature on solid waste management problems, with a particular focus on vehicle routing problems. The available papers are classified into different categories with the purpose of providing the reader with a guide that facilitates his or her search for papers in his or her field of interest. For each category, a table is presented that gives a summary of how each paper scores from that perspective. Additional explanation is presented about the characteristics of each category using some key references. Finally, this paper discovers unexplored areas of research and identifies trends in the literature.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.1120.0448
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1767714
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstracts reprinted with permission of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, http://www.informs.org).
• Authors:
  • Beliën, Jeroen
  • De Boeck, Liesje
  • Van Ackere, Jonas
• Publication Date: 2014-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 78-102
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Literature reviews; Optimization; Routing; Waste management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Vehicle routing problem
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01519609
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 26 2014 10:07AM