Title
Design of the Reverse Logistics System for Medical Waste Recycling Part II: Route Optimization with Case Study under COVID-19 Pandemic
Author
Xue, Chaozhong (Tongji University)
Dong, Y. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) 
Liu, Jiaqi (Tongji University)
Liao, Yijun (Tongji University)
Li, Lingbo (Tongji University)
Date
2023
Abstract
Medical waste recycling and treatment has gradually drawn concerns from the whole society, as the amount of medical waste generated is increasing dramatically, especially during the pandemic of COVID-19. To tackle the emerging challenges, this study designs a reverse logistics system architecture with three modules, i.e., medical waste classification & monitoring module, temporary storage & disposal site (disposal site for short) selection module, as well as route optimization module. This overall solution design won the Grand Prize of the “YUNFENG CUP” China National Contest on Green Supply and Reverse Logistics Design ranking 1 st . This paper focuses on the design of the route optimization module. In this module, a route optimization problem is designed considering transportation costs and multiple risk costs (e.g., environment risk, population risk, property risk, and other accident-related risks). The Analytic Hierarchy Process is employed to determine the weights for each risk element, and a customized genetic algorithm is developed to solve the route optimization problem. A case study under the COVID-19 pandemic is further provided to verify the proposed model. Limited by length, detailed descriptions of the whole system and the other modules can be found at https://shorturl.at/cdY59.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC57777.2023.10422236
Publisher
IEEE
Embargo date
2024-03-28
ISBN
9798350399462
Source
2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
Event
26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2023, 2023-09-24 → 2023-09-28, Euskalduna Conference Centre, Bilbao, Spain
Series
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC, 2153-0009
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2023 Chaozhong Xue, Y. Dong, Jiaqi Liu, Yijun Liao, Lingbo Li