This paper mainly focuses on the collection, transfer and transportation
of solid waste from any waste generation sources
(households, markets, institutions and offices) to the processing
plant or landfill site. The factor influencing the municipal solid
waste collection and transportation are: (i) quantity of municipal
solid waste generation; (ii) number of waste collectors and their
deployment to cover the whole city; (iii) vehicles to run to and
from various transfer stations where garbage is gathered to the
respective processing plant. In this paper a scheme is proposed
for optimizing municipal solid waste collection and transportation
routes using the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). The proposed
scheme design an optimized municipal solid waste management
(MSWM) system with respect to transportation route length. The
TSP is one of the most prominent problems in combinatorial optimization,
and at the same time a quintessential applied spatialanalytic
challenge. The well-known travelling salesman problem
is the following: a salesman is required to visit once and only once
each of n number of different cities starting from a base city, and
returning to this city. The task is to find a shortest possible tour
that visits each city exactly once by the salesman