BOLLETTINO DELL'ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA DI CARTOGRAFIA
Abstract
Tirana municipality’s need was to start to handle the garbage problem which they
had never taken care of and which was creating serious problems in the SHARRA
landfill. Using a European tender it has been organized a project group working
side by side with the Tirana municipality that projected, developed and activated
the GIS to optimize garbage collection activities. The steps to be approached were:
l best site location of the bins
l optimization of the routes of the trucks cleaning the roads and collecting the bins
l certification and control of the activities done by the vehicles.