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Citation

Das A, Mazumder TN, Gupta AK. J. Hazard. Mater. 2012; 227-228: 341-352.

Affiliation

Department of Architecture & Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.05.068

PMID

22673061

Abstract

Transportation of hazardous wastes through a region poses immense threat on the development along its road network. The risk to the population, exposed to such activities, has been documented in the past. However, a comprehensive framework for routing hazardous wastes has often been overlooked. A regional Hazardous Waste Management scheme should incorporate a comprehensive framework for hazardous waste transportation. This framework would incorporate the various stakeholders involved in decision making. Hence, a multi-objective approach is required to safeguard the interest of all the concerned stakeholders. The objective of this study is to design a methodology for routing of hazardous wastes between the generating units and the disposal facilities through a capacity constrained network. The proposed methodology uses posteriori method with multi-objective approach to find non-dominated solutions for the system consisting of multiple origins and destinations. A case study of transportation of hazardous wastes in Kolkata Metropolitan Area has also been provided to elucidate the methodology.


Language: en

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