Publication detail

Transportation Cost as an Integral Part of Supply Chain Optimization in the Field of Waste Management

GREGOR, J. PAVLAS, M. ŠOMPLÁK, R.

English title

Transportation Cost as an Integral Part of Supply Chain Optimization in the Field of Waste Management

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

This paper deals with transportation cost modelling in the field of waste management. Waste transport from producers to the pre-processing facilities and/or plants for final treatment significantly contributes to overall processing cost and should be properly investigated to select the most convenient solution. The main goal of this paper is to describe comprehensive techno-economic model involving several types of transportation systems (for example collecting vehicles, transfer stations, intermodal container system). Each transportation system has been analysed according to its specific parameters, that is transport distance, amount of waste transported, etc. The results of the calculation (for example specific cost per ton and kilometre) then serve as inputs for detailed supply chain optimization involving complex networks. Correct implementation of transportation cost with relation to other system key parameters (for example distance, capacity of waste) enables getting more reliable output data. In the paper, authors describe methods of optimization task simplification without losing exactness of real solution. The impact on computational time will be addressed and concrete results related to real industrial case study in the field of waste-to-energy is presented.

English abstract

This paper deals with transportation cost modelling in the field of waste management. Waste transport from producers to the pre-processing facilities and/or plants for final treatment significantly contributes to overall processing cost and should be properly investigated to select the most convenient solution. The main goal of this paper is to describe comprehensive techno-economic model involving several types of transportation systems (for example collecting vehicles, transfer stations, intermodal container system). Each transportation system has been analysed according to its specific parameters, that is transport distance, amount of waste transported, etc. The results of the calculation (for example specific cost per ton and kilometre) then serve as inputs for detailed supply chain optimization involving complex networks. Correct implementation of transportation cost with relation to other system key parameters (for example distance, capacity of waste) enables getting more reliable output data. In the paper, authors describe methods of optimization task simplification without losing exactness of real solution. The impact on computational time will be addressed and concrete results related to real industrial case study in the field of waste-to-energy is presented.

Keywords in English

Garbage trucks, Transfer station, Capacity of waste, Distance, NERUDA, Truck, Technical-Economic transport models

Released

27.08.2016

ISBN

978-88-95608-47-1

ISSN

2283-9216

Book

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES 2016)

Volume

56

Number

1

Pages from–to

1927–1932

Pages count

6

BIBTEX


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  author="Jiří {Gregor} and Martin {Pavlas} and Radovan {Šomplák},
  title="Transportation Cost as an Integral Part of Supply Chain Optimization in the Field of Waste Management",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES 2016)",
  year="2016",
  volume="56",
  number="1",
  month="August",
  pages="1927--1932",
  isbn="978-88-95608-47-1",
  issn="2283-9216"
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