Journal
TRANSPORTMETRICA A-TRANSPORT SCIENCE
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 1053-1083Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/23249935.2021.1916644
Keywords
Disaster waste management; two-echelon location routing problem; MIP; genetic algorithm; greedy algorithm
Funding
- National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme
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This study develops a model to minimize the cost and duration of disaster waste clean-up using Temporary Disaster Waste Management Sites (TDWMSs). Results show that using TDWMSs can reduce both total waste clean-up cost and duration, with the capacities of the sites significantly impacting the clean-up time and duration.
Waste clean-up after a disaster is one of the most critical tasks in the response stage of disaster management. We develop a model to minimise the cost and duration of disaster waste clean-up considering using Temporary Disaster Waste Management Sites (TDWMSs), which can store and process waste before it is sent to the final disposal sites. The problem that arises can be seen as a Multi-Period Two-echelon Location Routing Problem (MP-2ELRP) in which the main decisions are the location of the TDWMSs and the routing of vehicles in both echelons. In this paper, we propose both a mixed-integer program and a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to model and solve the problem. Computational tests indicate: (i) the performance of proposed GA is robust; (ii) the use of TDWMSs can reduce both total waste clean-up cost and duration; and (iii) the capacities of TDWMSs have a significant impact on the total waste clean-up time and duration.
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