Management Science in New York's Department of Sanitation

Lucius J. Riccio
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Lucius J. Riccio: Department of Sanitation, 125 Worth Street, New York, New York 10013

Interfaces, 1984, vol. 14, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: New York City's Department of Sanitation has used MS/OR techniques to solve many of its refuse collection and street cleaning problems. Four applications are discussed---a manpower forecasting model, a truck-sizing model, production functions for street cleaning, and a model to allocate truckloads to dump sites.

Keywords: government: services; waste disposal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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