Abstract
Indigenous footpaths have been the major means of passage from origin to destination before the advent of cars and town
planning. Over the years, these traditional areas have retained their original attributes with additional walking links to the
motorable roads. In this study, footpaths to municipal solid waste bins were modelled in order to locate waste bins within an area
in Ilorin, north central Nigeria. A network dataset was built in a standard GIS application (ArcMap 10) from the downloaded
satellite image of the study area. The Location-Allocation tool in the Network Analyst window was then used to determine the
optimal location of facilities based on cut-off walking distance which defines command area of a waste bin. The result of this
analysis could act as a decision support tool for the determination of type, size and removal frequency of each waste bin based on
estimates of waste generation from each command area.