Improving municipal solid waste collection using spatial data

从历史上看，废物管理工程师很少收集有关其城市固体废物收集操作的信息。在固体废物收集车辆上安装全球定位系统数据记录器和其他车辆自动定位系统，大大改变了这种情况。2003年，申请人开始与汉密尔顿市合作，从在各种不同收集路线上运行的五种不同废物收集车辆收集AVL数据。这项工作已经展示了所收集数据的几种实际用途，但同样清楚的是，利用这个丰富的数据源可以做更多的事情。拟议研究的目的是协助城市固体废物管理人员与他们的日常运作决策和长期规划的需要，通过开发决策支持工具，管理固体废物收集业务。这项研究的具体目标是：

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: