1. Diseño de una Red de logística Inversa para recolectar Aceite Vehicular Usado en la ciudad de Pereira implementando CVRP.
- Author
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Castañeda Jiménez, Juliana and Cardona Arias, Jaime Andrés
- Abstract
The environmental problem generated by the poor used oil discard mechanisms at the present time in Colombia has enable the establishment of business focused on the proper collection and disposal of waste in some of Colombia's major cities; however, this mechanisms still do no guarantee that these companies provide full coverage. The city of Pereira has a high number of oil generating agents (such as Lubrication Centers, Service Centers, Repair shops, among others), which requires the creation of a proper oil waste recovery and disposal system in order to benefit the environment and the citizens. This paper presents the creation of a reverse logistics network associated with the proper used oil collection in the city of Pereira. To build the model it was necessary to identify the residue generators points, the distances between each of the nodes and the logistics variable costs evaluating two types of tanker trucks. The situation was modeled as a Capacited Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), which was solved by implementing the route-first cluster-second principle in vehicle routing, a two phase heuristic. The first phase is solved by using the Savings Algorithm, while the second phase is solved by using the Clustering Algorithm. Further on, both algorithms are programmed in MATLAB, where the solution determines the sub-routes integrating the reverse logistics network with the order in which each vehicle should visit the different used oil generating points. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2017