Locating waste pipelines to minimize their impact on marine environment

A waste pipeline, considered as an undesirable facility, is to be located in a coastal region. Two criteria are taken into account, the Euclidean distance from a given set of protected areas (coral reefs and sandbanks) and a utility function related to the pipe length, both to be maximized. The pape...

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Authors: Cáceres Sansaloni, María Teresa, Mesa López-Colmenar, Juan Antonio, Ortega Riejos, Francisco Alonso
Format: article
Status:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Publication Date:2007
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/89856
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/89856
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.06.073
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Undesirable facility location
Forbidden regions
Zone Voronoi diagram
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Summary:A waste pipeline, considered as an undesirable facility, is to be located in a coastal region. Two criteria are taken into account, the Euclidean distance from a given set of protected areas (coral reefs and sandbanks) and a utility function related to the pipe length, both to be maximized. The paper describes a methodology to obtain an efficient set of points where the extreme of a marine pipeline should be located. Since the formulation of the model is based on the zone Voronoi diagram, the computational complexity of the solving procedure is low.