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Hazardous wastes’ volume produced by human activities has increased in recent years. Consequently, associated risks involved in the treatment, recycling, disposing, and transportation of these hazardous materials have become more attractive for the researchers. In this study, we propose a new model for hazardous waste location routing problem. Appending the service time window and workload balance to the previous mathematical models can be taken into account as the major contributions of this study. Three objective functions including two systematic goals (cost and risk) and one social goal (workload balancing) have been considered for the model. Compatibility between wastes and a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles, which are rarely investigated in the literature, is discussed in this paper. Since the proposed model is classified as a multi-objective model, three multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, namely Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II), Pareto Envelope-based Selection Algorithm II (PESA-II), and Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm II (SPEA-II) are employed. As two other innovations, an adaptive penalty function is developed and the PESA-II is modified by removing replicated solutions from its archive and their obtained results are discussed. Finally, by experimenting a number of test problems in different sizes, it is demonstrated that proposed modified PESA-II and SPEA-II perform better than NSGA-II in most of comparison metrics including feasible answers exploration, CPU time, spacing metric, inverted generational distance, quality metric, etc., whereas, NSGA-II creates more spread Pareto frontiers which are suitable for decision-maker to choose, from among a range of different options.
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Rabbani, M., Nikoubin, A. & Farrokhi-Asl, H. Using modified metaheuristic algorithms to solve a hazardous waste collection problem considering workload balancing and service time windows. Soft Comput 25, 1885–1912 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-020-05261-4
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