Abstract
This paper presents a vehicle routing approach for the transport of end-of-life consumer electronic goods for recycling in South Korea. The objective is to minimize the distance of transportation of end-of-life goods collected by local authorities and major manufacturers' distribution centers to four regional recycling centers located. A vehicle routing problem is constructed for each regional center, and a Tabu search is applied to solve it. Computational results using field data show that the method outperforms existing approaches to reverse logistics.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 291-299 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2009 |
Keywords
- Recycling
- Reverse logistics
- Tabu search
- Vehicle routing problem