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RECORD NUMBER: 70 OF 72| Main Title | Use of Computer Programs to Calculate Regional Domestic Solid Waste Transport and Disposal Costs and to Assign Service Areas to Multiple Disposal Sites. | |||||||||||
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| Author | Zepp., Paul L. ; | |||||||||||
| CORP Author | Regional Planning Council, Baltimore, Md.;Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. Office of Solid Waste Management. | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1972 | |||||||||||
| Report Number | BTL/RPC-72/100; PHS-EC-00289-01; | |||||||||||
| Stock Number | PB-236 668 | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Transportation costs ; Computerized simulation ; Solid waste disposal ; Sites ; Statistical data ; Refuse disposal ; Operations research ; Linear programming ; Site selection ; Cargo transportation ; Solid waste haulage ; Regional disposal sites | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 189p | |||||||||||
| Abstract | The report discusses the selection of solid waste disposal sites in zones having large populations, zoning restrictions, high land costs, public unacceptability, higher priorities, and other hindrances, particularly where minimum transportation costs are unavailable. A computer program using a simulation technique is described which calculates unit transportation costs from surrounding population zones to a disposal site zone on the basis of tons of refuse supplied. |