Otimização de rotas de coleta de resíduos sólidos em uma área urbana: o caso da cidade de Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

The disorderly growth of Brazilian cities, associated with the lack of implementation of policies and the lack of planning in the provision of basic sanitation services in municipalities, the sustainability of a quality collection and transportation service is a municipal management service. The objective of this work is to evaluate the efficiency of solid and commercial solid waste collection and transportation services in urban centers, based on the optimization of routes, based on the study of Liberdade and Jeremias neighborhoods. The methodology of this study consists in using mathematical techniques by means of an algorithm that is integrated in a routing software, which defines a better route, according to the variable to be optimized; Being used in the research as variables of speed, travel time, topography and traffic intensity of vehicles. The results reflect an idea that the current rotation of waste collection needs better planning and improvements and that topography variables are an important aspect to be considered. With the adoption of optimized routes, in detriment of the current route of collection, a company responsible for providing the service could be more efficient, performing the same activity in a shorter time and still save the resources needed for a service rendering. In this way, with an application of the results in practice, a company could save annually more than R $ 15,000.00, only using as optimized routes for the two evaluated neighborhoods. By expanding this city-wide analysis, results are available at high annual cost reductions, and such financial savings can be redirected to an improvement in the city's own solid waste management system, including targeted selective collection actions, which It's so incipient in Campina Grande.