Optimización de las operaciones logísticas, en las rutas urbanas de recolección de desechos sólidos en la empresa pública Municipal GIDSA Ambato.

Abstract

The present investigation aims to minimize the costs of the logistical operations at urban routes of solid waste collection of the municipal public company GIDSA. (Solid Waste Management Ambato). It analyzed the current situation through information gathering, interviews, deductive analysis and research, in order to obtain real data that help to the guide proposed research and realization of an application at problem Routing Traveling Agent (TSP) developed by means of the metaphysical algorithm Colonia de Hormigas ACO; which find a solution that satisfying the initial condition of the problem provides a closed route which generates a minimum route. Due to the complexity of solving the heuristic methods to solve problems of the traveling agent (TSP), a program was developed in Matlab with the purpose of solving the ACO algorithm and obtaining feasible answers in considerable time. It is concluded that the current collection system might be improved with the proposed solution, which will help the company to reduce 42 km per day and generate a saving of the collection process of 25%. It is recommended the use and generation of programming in a version of Maltlab 2016 or higher in a computer with processor 15 or higher for the proper functioning of it, since the resolution speed will depend on this.