scholarly journals Waste collection routing problem: A mini-review of recent heuristic approaches and applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 0734242X2110039
Author(s):  
Yun-Chia Liang ◽  
Vanny Minanda ◽  
Aldy Gunawan

The waste collection routing problem (WCRP) can be defined as a problem of designing a route to serve all of the customers (represented as nodes) with the least total traveling time or distance, served by the least number of vehicles under specific constraints, such as vehicle capacity. The relevance of WCRP is rising due to its increased waste generation and all the challenges involved in its efficient disposal. This research provides a mini-review of the latest approaches and its application in the collection and routing of waste. Several metaheuristic algorithms are reviewed, such as ant colony optimization, simulated annealing, genetic algorithm, large neighborhood search, greedy randomized adaptive search procedures, and others. Some other approaches to solve WCRP like GIS is also introduced. Finally, a performance comparison of a real-world benchmark is presented as well as future research opportunities in WCRP field.

Author(s):  
Abdulwahab Almutairi

In logistics, several algorithms can be implemented in order to solve the problems of the vehicle routing with variants in order to find near-optimal solutions. Waste Collection can be considered as an essential logistic activity within any area or city. This kind of paper is aimed to implement Iterated greedy (IG) and Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) to solve waste collection vehicle routing problem with time windows on a real-case study. The idea is to generate an efficient way to collect waste problems in an area located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Moreover, generating a route plays a significant role in terms of serving all customers’ demands who have own different time windows of receiving goods. Also, the performance of the proposed algorithms according to all instances is examined and minimizing the total costs and meeting all constraints that related to capacity, time windows, and others. To evaluate the execution of the presented algorithms, the computational results showed essential improvements, and also ALNS algorithm generates reasonable solutions in terms of total costs and a reasonable amount of time, when compared to other algorithms.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Winarno (Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang) ◽  
A. A. N. Perwira Redi (Universitas Pertamina)

AbstractTwo-echelon location routing problem (2E-LRP) is a problem that considers distribution problem in a two-level / echelon transport system. The first echelon considers trips from a main depot to a set of selected satellite. The second echelon considers routes to serve customers from the selected satellite. This study proposes two metaheuristics algorithms to solve 2E-LRP: Simulated Annealing (SA) and Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) heuristics. The neighborhood / operator moves of both algorithms are modified specifically to solve 2E-LRP. The proposed SA uses swap, insert, and reverse operators. Meanwhile the proposed LNS uses four destructive operator (random route removal, worst removal, route removal, related node removal, not related node removal) and two constructive operator (greedy insertion and modived greedy insertion). Previously known dataset is used to test the performance of the both algorithms. Numerical experiment results show that SA performs better than LNS. The objective function value for SA and LNS are 176.125 and 181.478, respectively. Besides, the average computational time of SA and LNS are 119.02s and 352.17s, respectively.AbstrakPermasalahan penentuan lokasi fasilitas sekaligus rute kendaraan dengan mempertimbangkan sistem transportasi dua eselon juga dikenal dengan two-echelon location routing problem (2E-LRP) atau masalah lokasi dan rute kendaraan dua eselon (MLRKDE). Pada eselon pertama keputusan yang perlu diambil adalah penentuan lokasi fasilitas (diistilahkan satelit) dan rute kendaraan dari depo ke lokasi satelit terpilih. Pada eselon kedua dilakukan penentuan rute kendaraan dari satelit ke masing-masing pelanggan mempertimbangan jumlah permintaan dan kapasitas kendaraan. Dalam penelitian ini dikembangkan dua algoritma metaheuristik yaitu Simulated Annealing (SA) dan Large Neighborhood Search (LNS). Operator yang digunakan kedua algoritma tersebut didesain khusus untuk permasalahan MLRKDE. Algoritma SA menggunakan operator swap, insert, dan reverse. Algoritma LNS menggunakan operator perusakan (random route removal, worst removal, route removal, related node removal, dan not related node removal) dan perbaikan (greedy insertion dan modified greedy insertion). Benchmark data dari penelitian sebelumnya digunakan untuk menguji performa kedua algoritma tersebut. Hasil eksperimen menunjukkan bahwa performa algoritma SA lebih baik daripada LNS. Rata-rata nilai fungsi objektif dari SA dan LNS adalah 176.125 dan 181.478. Waktu rata-rata komputasi algoritma SA and LNS pada permasalahan ini adalah 119.02 dan 352.17 detik.


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