Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/178273 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Citation: 
[Journal:] Operations Research Perspectives [ISSN:] 2214-7160 [Volume:] 4 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2017 [Pages:] 39-48
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
The selection of a suitable location for infectious waste disposal is one of the major problems in waste management. Determining the location of infectious waste disposal centers is a difficult and complex process because it requires combining social and environmental factors that are hard to interpret, and cost factors that require the allocation of resources. Additionally, it depends on several regulations. Based on the actual conditions of a case study, forty hospitals and three candidate municipalities in the sub-Northeast region of Thailand, we considered multiple factors such as infrastructure, geological and social & environmental factors, calculating global priority weights using the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP). After that, a new multi-objective facility location problem model which combines FAHP and goal programming (GP), namely the FAHP-GP model, was tested. The proposed model can lead to selecting new suitable locations for infectious waste disposal by considering both total cost and final priority weight objectives. The novelty of the proposed model is the simultaneous combination of relevant factors that are difficult to interpret and cost factors, which require the allocation of resources.
Subjects: 
Multi-objective facility location problem
Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
Infectious waste disposal centers
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