GIS SUPPORTED OPTIMIZATION OF SOLID WASTE COLLECTION IN TRABZON

Abstract

In the municipal solid waste management systems, collection and hauling efforts cover 85 percent of total system expenditures that make quite huge amount of money for societies. In order to get reduction on those and to save resources, searching for optimization possibilities gains importance. In case of not using an optimization on collection, total cost of the disposal management of the solid waste is getting increased because of “empty mile negativeness. In this study, to minimize the route and collection cost was objected. For that purpose, as an optimization tool, RouteView Pro TM software was used. Comparison with present collection routes and optimized routes was pointed out a success as average 20 % percent route length in decrease of entire collection job. The numbers of turns on the route and time spends also can be decreased as