Improving municipal solid waste collection using spatial data

从历史上看，废物管理工程师对他们的城市固体废物收集操作收集的信息很少。在固体废物收集车辆上安装全球定位系统（GPS）数据记录仪和其他自动车辆定位系统大大改变了这种情况。2003年，申请人开始与汉密尔顿市合作，收集在各种不同收集路线上运行的五种不同废物收集车辆的AVL数据。这项工作展示了收集到的数据的几种实际用途，但同样清楚的是，可以用这个丰富的数据源完成更多的工作。拟议研究的目的是通过开发管理固体废物收集业务的决策支持工具，协助城市固体废物管理人员进行日常业务决策和长期规划需求。本研究的具体目标是：1。1 .利用地理信息系统（GIS），分析若干固废收集车辆在各种不同收集方案下的运动和运行的基本空间数据；（二）将这些数据与人口普查信息、重量比例尺记录等其他数据集联系起来；3 .开发一套综合的分析城市固体废物收集系统的建模工具；4 .将这些工具应用于不同的废物收集工作，以提高废物收集工作的效率，减少废物收集工作的成本和对环境的影响；将研究结果传达给废物管理工程师；and6。培养研究生系统工程方法和城市固体废物管理。这项研究预计将导致更有效和成本更低的废物收集操作。具体来说，这项研究应有助于尽量减少废物收集车队的规模和收集城市固体废物所需的时间。最终的结果将是降低资本和运营成本，降低燃料消耗，减少废物收集车辆的空气排放。

Historically, waste management engineers have collected very little information about their municipal solid waste collection operations. The installation of global positioning system (GPS) data recorders and other automatic vehicle location (AVL) systems on solid waste collection vehicles has changed that situation significantly. In 2003, the applicant began working with the City of Hamilton to collect AVL data from five different waste collection vehicles operating on a variety of different collection routes. This work has demonstrated several practical uses for the collected data, but it is also clear that much more can be done with this rich data source. The purpose of the proposed research is to assist municipal solid waste managers with both their day-to-day operational decisions and their long-term planning needs by developing decision support tools for managing solid waste collection operations. The specific objectives of this research are:1.     to analyze fundamental spatial data on the movements and operations of a number of solid waste collection vehicles in a variety of different collection schemes using a geographic information system (GIS);2.     to relate those data to other data sets such as census information and weigh-scale records;3.     to develop an integrated set of modeling tools for analyzing municipal solid waste collection systems;4.     to apply those tools to a range of different waste collection operations with a view to improving the efficiency and reducing the cost and environmental impact of waste collection operations;5.     to communicate the results of the research to waste management engineers; and6.     to train graduate students in systems engineering methods and municipal solid waste management.This research is expected to result in more efficient and less costly waste collection operations. Specifically, this research should help to minimize the size of waste collection truck fleets and the amount of time required to collect municipal solid wastes. The end result will be lower capital and operating costs, lower fuel consumption, and reduced air emissions from waste collection vehicles.