A Two-stage Robust Model for Urban Food Waste Collection Network Under Uncertainty

Abstract

In this paper, the vehicles choosing and routes planning problem in the urban food waste collection network is addressed. Considering service demands uncertainty and traversing costs uncertainty on roads, a bi-objective two-stage binary robust model is formulated to derive cost-effective and public-friendly strategies for collection vehicles. One objective is to minimize the worst-case total cost, while the other minimizes the environmental-disutility. A solution procedure based on the combination of the $\epsilon$-constraint method and the modified column-and-constraint generation algorithm is developed to solve the model. A case study is finally performed to validate the effectiveness of the robust model and the solution procedure.