DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF MADURAI CORPORATION

Graphical User Interface (GUI) was developed to gather yearly, monthly and daily statistics of solid waste in Madurai Corporation viz. collection, transportation and disposal. Moreover, reports regarding accidents, vehicles air quality and ground water quality at dumping yard conditions of the Madurai Corporation were also gathered. The collected data was giving as input to computer based Urban Waste Information System (UWIS) using Visual Basic front end and Microsoft Access back end. It is a vital tool, which provides best decision support to bridge the gap between requirements and reality. The user can easily understand the system and create own models as well. The system developed includes hardware and software requirements, system software used and application development tools. Application of UWIS provided all informations regarding solid waste at different levels such as zone wise, ward wise etc., The users are allowed to add query to this and UWIS has the option to edit and update the existing information., In essence to say, UWIS applied to the Corporation of Madurai results in computerizing the entire informations related to the urban waste.