Title: Fuzzy goal programming approach on location-routing model for waste containers

Authors: Salih Aka; Gökhan Akyüz

Addresses: Institute of Social Sciences, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey ' Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey

Abstract: In this study, an application about determining the location of recyclable waste containers was executed in Siteler District part of Konyaaltı Municipality in Antalya, Turkey. For this problem, a location-routing model based on fuzzy goal programming was built. The aim of this study was to select optimal location nodes, which serve the maximum number of dwellings from candidate locations nodes and also, to create a minimum-distanced route between selected nodes. The containers of recyclable waste were located on optimal nodes of the route obtained by the mathematical model, which was run for different tolerance ranges and different priority structures.

Keywords: multi-objective location models; location-routing problems; fuzzy goal programming.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2018.094265

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2018 Vol.29 No.4, pp.413 - 427

Received: 16 Mar 2016
Accepted: 29 Jul 2016
Published online: 26 Aug 2018 *

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