AN ALGORITHM FOR GARBAGE TRUCK ROUTING IN CITIES WITH A FIXATION ON CONTAINER FILLING LEVEL

Abstract

An algorithm for optimizing the routes of a set of vehicles used for the collection and removal of municipal solid waste in a metropolis is proposed. The algorithm eliminates the problem of applying heuristic methods for multi-agent optimization, which is NP non-deterministic polynomial-time-hard. The application of the algorithm leads to a guaranteed exact solution. Through the application of restrictions on the carrying capacity of vehicles, the size of the input matrix representing the transport network can be reduced to an adequate size. This process uses statistical information about the filling levels of container waste bins. The algorithm is applied to an example of two megacities. The shortest routes are built for different numbers of points (from 12 to 72) on the route. The dependence of the total mileage on the number of involved vehicles is studied.

Keywords

• routing
• lexical search
• garbage collection
• capacity limitation