A Cross-Regional Scheduling Strategy of Waste Collection and Transportation Based on an Improved Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Algorithm

Table 1

The meaning of each symbol.

Parameter	Meaning
k	Number of collection points in the i-th garbage collection point cluster
K	Number of garbage collection point clusters
H	Number of terminal disposal plants
Ci	The i-th collection point cluster
zi	The garbage transfer station corresponding to Ci
sij	The j-th garbage transfer station in Ci
ci	The terminal disposal plant corresponding to Ci
	The garbage amount of the j-th collection point in Ci
M	The maximum nuclear load of the garbage vehicle
WPh	The amount of garbage into the h-th disposal plant
Rh	The number of collection points corresponding to the h-th disposal plant
WCr	The total amount of garbage of Cr
MPh	The upper limit of the h-th disposal plant