Debris source locations (left) potential site locations (right)
Red tags represent landfills
Results – minimizing net costs with different upper bounds on disposal time
Disposal time is 6 months (left) 24 months (right)
Locations where the process “separation” has been installed in the solutions
Tool Specifications
Requirements
- PC with 64 bit Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Office Excel (version 2003 or later)
- Internet connection
Optimization & solution visualization
- GLPK for optimizing GNU Linear Programming Kit
- Google Maps Image APIs for obtaining maps with solutions
User interface
- Excel file with buttons that run macros
- Data inputs and outputs in the same file
- One Excel file for each different project