Eisenstein, Donald D.; Iyer, Ananth. V. - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 7, pp. 922-933
We investigate the scheduling of garbage trucks in the city of Chicago. Analysis of data collected from the system shows that city blocks differ in the rate at which garbage is collected. However, in the current system, each truck visits the dumpsite two times each day. Our approach is to devise...