Optimization of Household Waste Collection Routes Using GIS: Case Study El Bousten district, commune of Sfax, Tunisia
Rim Sallem 1 * and Mohamed Jamel Rouis2
1
Unit of research environmental geotechnique and civil materials,
University of Sfax,
Tunisia
2
Department of Geology,
Sfax National School of Engineering,
P.O. Box 1173,
3038 Sfax
Tunisia
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.1.07
This paper presents a method for optimizing the household waste collection system supported by Geographical Information System (GIS) tool for the sector 1of district El Bousten of Sfax commune, Tunisia. The ArcGIS Network Analyst based model is applied for the purpose of improving the collection process effectiveness, namely, the household collection bins’ reallocation along with the vehicles’ tour optimization procedure in terms of distance and time. Results indicated a reduction of 25, 83% in route and 21, 5 % in the time spent of collection along with fuel consumption savings. These findings show that GIS based model tends to exhibit significant improvements as to the collection and transportation system, therefore, to its economical and environmental costs.
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Sallem R, Rouis M. J. Optimization of Household Waste Collection Routes Using GIS: Case Study El Bousten district, commune of Sfax, Tunisia. Curr World Environ 2017;12(1). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.1.07
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Sallem R, Rouis M. J. Optimization of Household Waste Collection Routes Using GIS: Case Study El Bousten district, commune of Sfax, Tunisia. Curr World Environ 2017;12(1). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=16892
