کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6355157 1315032 2014 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Improving collection efficiency through remote monitoring of charity assets
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بهبود بهره وری جمع آوری از طریق نظارت از راه دور از دارایی های خیریه
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه علوم زمین و سیارات مهندسی ژئوتکنیک و زمین شناسی مهندسی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Remote monitoring can improve charity collection scheduling.
- Minimum bank and shop fill levels used to trigger collections.
- 30% reduction in collection vehicle time and distance using a tabu search algorithm.
- Potential revenue gain of 5% and CO2 savings of 0.5 tonnes per week across six vehicles.

Collection costs associated with servicing a major UK charity's donation banks and collecting unsold goods from their retail shops can account for up to 20% of the overall income gained. Bank and shop collections are commingled and are typically made on fixed days of the week irrespective of the amounts of materials waiting to be collected. Using collection records from a major UK charity, this paper considers what vehicle routing and scheduling benefits could accrue if bank and shop servicing requirements were monitored, the former using remote sensing technology to allow more proactive collection scheduling. A vehicle routing and scheduling algorithm employing tabu search methods was developed, and suggested time and distance savings of up to 30% over the current fixed schedules when a minimum bank and shop fill level of between 50% and 60% was used as a collection trigger. For the case study investigated, this led to a potential revenue gain of 5% for the charity and estimated CO2 savings of around 0.5 tonnes per week across the fleet of six heterogeneous vehicles.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Waste Management - Volume 34, Issue 2, February 2014, Pages 273-280
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