Location Analysis Helps Manage Solid Waste in Central Portugal

António P. Antunes
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António P. Antunes: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, 3049 Coimbra Codex, Portugal

Interfaces, 1999, vol. 29, issue 4, 32-43

Abstract: By the beginning of the 1990s, the Portuguese Centro Region was suffering from extremely serious solid-waste-sector problems. The Portuguese Centro Region Coordination Agency asked me to prepare a document identifying the main issues involved in finding a solution to the existing problems and to propose a master plan for intervention. My proposal defined a network of sanitary landfills and transfer stations covering the whole region (23,700 square km; 1,714,000 inhabitants). The proposal was the basis for the discussions held at the regional council and for the solution that is currently being implemented. To define the network, I developed a mixed-integer optimization model combining elements of a p-median model and a capacitated-facility-location model with transshipments.

Keywords: government; services; facilities planning: location; discrete (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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