Municipal solid waste generation modelling based on fuzzy logic

The present paper introduces an innovative model for the estimation of urban solid waste productivity using an intelligent system based on fuzzy logic. The model retrieves the required information from a spatial Geodatabase, integrated in a GIS environment. The model takes into consideration several parameters of waste production, such as population density, maximum building density, commercial traffic, area and type of shops, road network and its relative information (e.g. road width, dead-end streets, etc) linked with the allocation of waste bins. Additionally, ground-based analysis has been applied for the estimation of the interrelations between the aforementioned factors and the variations in waste production between residential and commercial areas. Therefore, the proposed model follows a unified and correlated categorization approach for all commercial and industrial activities in the area of study using a weighting system for all of the considered factors. The first results from testing the System using different regions, show the effectiveness of the system in the estimation process of the optimal number of waste bins in each region.