An Algorithm for the Optimal Waste Collection in Urban Areas

In waste collection, one of the most important decision regards the routing and the scheduling of the service. In this context, during the Optimization for Networked Data in Environmental Urban Waste Collection (ONDE-UWC) project, an innovative optimization method for tackling those decisions has been developed in collaboration with the company Cidiu S.p.A (www.cidiu.to.it). The importance of the method is three-folds. First, it is innovative because it does not impose periodic routes. Second, it uses information coming from IoT sensors in order to build statistical models for the waste collection evolution. Third, the developed method has shown great usability and performance in the real field.