Genetic Algorithm Based Optimized Waste Collection in Smart Cities

Abstract

In recent years, the concept of smarts cities emerged to cope with the growth that cities around the world are facing. There are lots of problem areas in smart cities such as smart education, health, buildings, shopping, traffic management, etc. Waste management is one complex and effective problems of urbanization that is needed to be solved in smart cities. Route planning for waste collection and garbage trucks is a known issue in waste management. In this project, a genetic algorithm is proposed to address the problem of waste collection route using a truck fleet. The algorithm was tested in a simplified real state in single area and proved to be applicable to real-world scenarios based solely on the actual data of waste collection of cities.