Optimization for Smarter Collection and Transportation Route for Bio-medical Waste

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  • A. R. Tembhurkar
  • R. Deshpande

Abstract

Due to rapid urbanization, medical facilities would also increase generating infectious medical waste even in the heart of the city. The hospitals are the major source, which are normally diversely placed with complex road connectivity. A quick, safe, techno-economically feasible transportation of bio-medical waste (BMW) is the need of an hour. A more systematic and smarter infrastructure would be required for BMW collection and transportation for the future smarter cities. An automated and computerized system, based on an appropriate optimization technique would be required to handle the complex infrastructure such as collection and transportation of BMW. An ant colony optimization (ACO) based technique with modification considering risk and time window can provide a smarter way of finding optimum routes for collection and transportation of BMW in city. This paper deals with the application of ACO technique for route optimization for transportation of BMW.  Keywords: Bio-medical waste, optimization, urbanization, BMW transportation Cite this Article Tembhurkar AR, Radhika Deshpande. Optimization for Smarter Collection and Transportation Route for Bio-Medical Waste. Journal of Energy, Environment and Carbon Credits. 2016; 6(1): 5–10p.

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2016-03-18

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2016)

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