Siting MSW landfills with a weighted linear combination methodology in a GIS environment

Mahini, A Salman; Gholamalifard, Mehdi

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“…Planning and management begin with problem description and continue by several types of analysis, including modeling and simulation [25]. This study combined GIS applications with decision support tools and field observations for industrial landfill site selection; however, the employed approach can also be applied for other site selection studies as well.…”

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“…Korucu and Erdagi [24] expressed that municipal solid waste disposal has two main problems: the selection of a disposal method and the selection of a disposing site. Salman Mahini and Gholamalifard [25] and Moeinaddini et al [26] carried out weighted overlay landfill site selection using the Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) method. Bottero et al [27] applied the analytical hierarchy process and analytical network process in a landfill site selection study.…”

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Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

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Sustainable waste management, particularly in industrial areas, is one of the major challenges of developing countries. Among the important issues in the overall process of industrial wastes management is the necessity of suitable site selection for waste disposal. Considering the effects that the disposal sites exert on their surrounding ecosystem and environment, these sites should be located in places with the minimum destructive effects and the lowest environmental impacts. The aim of this research is to outline important criteria for industrial zone waste disposal site selection and to select optimal and proper disposal sites in the Salafchegan special economic zone. This region, as one of the most important industrial areas and closest to the country's political-economic center, enjoys a privileged and unique position for producing, exporting, and transiting goods and products. There are various parameters involved in the optimal selection of suitable industrial waste disposal sites. In this case study, issues such as the depth of groundwater, distance from surface-and groundwater, access routes, residential areas, industries, power transmission lines, flood-proneness, faults, slope, and distance from gardens and agricultural lands were taken into account. Following selection and preparation of the maps related to the influential parameters, assigning weights was done through the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and using expert comments. At this stage, the maps and weights related to them were introduced into an index overlay model to obtain new maps from combining the influential parameters. Thereafter, the areas with the first and second priorities were selected and out of each one, four sites were suggested for disposing of industrial wastes. The sites with the first and second priorities were specified as A1, A2, A3, and A4 and B1, B2, B3, and B4, respectively. The area, groundwater depth, distance from residential areas, distance from the Salafchegan special economic zone, the direction of the predominant wind, and the land use of the selected sites were also investigated.

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Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

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“…Farhan and Murray [13] proposed a multi-objective spatial optimization model for locating park-and-ride facilities, which compared the optimal sites with and without existing facilities. To evaluate the feasibility of potential landfill sites, Mahini and Gholamalifard [12] applied a weighted linear combination method in a GIS environment, which was characterized by tradeoff among the evaluation factors.…”

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“…In this study, the optimization analysis focuses on regional stations, and the objective is to determine the optimal number and locations of stations, considering some practical user-defined criteria such as budget and station distance constraints. Geographic information systems (GIS) have been widely applied in the facility siting and have proven to be a capable tool in assisting facility planning [10][11][12][13], which significantly enhances location planning and decision making [14]. ArcGIS 10.0 [15] is applied in this study to provide and gather required data and display the optimization results.…”

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Planning a road weather information system with GIS

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The road weather information system (RWIS), which collects and monitors weather and pavement surface conditions, has been proven effective to support winter road maintenance by improving safety, mobility, and efficiency. Although the geographic information systems are being widely applied for facility siting, traditional practices of sitting RWIS stations still heavily rely on the experiences of maintenance and operation personnel, which is time-consuming and subjective. This study develops a linear model to determine the optimal RWIS locations subject to three selection criteria: weather, traffic condition, and distance to existing RWIS sites, while considering practical constraints to satisfy specific requirements of various agencies (e.g., different weights of weather/traffic factors, various available budgets, etc.).

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“…In fact, landfill is an essential part of any waste management system and is a widely used method. (Mahini and Gholamalifard 2006). Of the various techniques of solid waste management, land filling is the most popular and widely prevalent technique in India.…”

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Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Sites Selection for Visakhapatnam City under Vision 2020 Using GIS and AHP

Dara

Reddy

2018

Int J Cont Res Rev

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Abstract:Municipal solid waste management is considered as one of the most serious environmental and social issue challenging municipal authorities in all major cities in India. The main problem is selecting a suitable landfill site for Solid Waste Management (SWM). Land filling is now accepted as the most widely used method for addressing this problem in all countries of the world. However, appropriate site selection for land filling is a problem in waste management and therefore needs to be addressed. This study aims at selecting a suitable solid waste landfill site for Visakhapatnam City, India for its future needs. A set of four main criteria and 13 sub criteria are considered for identifying suitable sites. The combination of GIS and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been used to give weights to different criteria. Relative Importance Weightage (RIW) of each parameter over the other is calculated by pair-wise comparison using the 9-point scale. The suitability index (0.1-0.6) values are determined for five classes (excellent, good, moderate, poor and very poor) for land fill siting. The study also aims at generating an optimal route to the suitable sites identified from the waste transfer station by using Network Analyst module of ArcGIS software such that the total system cost can be minimized.

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Siting MSW landfills with a weighted linear combination methodology in a GIS environment

Cited by 138 publications

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Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

Landfill Site Selection Using a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method: A Case Study of the Salafcheghan Special Economic Zone, Iran

Planning a road weather information system with GIS

Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Sites Selection for Visakhapatnam City under Vision 2020 Using GIS and AHP

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