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Research Article

A solution methodology for a Smart Waste Collection Routing Problem with workload concerns: computational and managerial insights from a real case study

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Article: 2086717 | Received 27 Sep 2021, Accepted 02 Jun 2022, Published online: 18 Jun 2022

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