In addition to the increasing population and rapid urbanization, the amount and variety of medical waste are rapidly increasing due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic affecting the whole world. COVID-19 does not only increase the amount of medical waste produced, medical wastes generated in the care of COVID-19 carries a high risk of transmission as well. In this regard, the safe and effective management of medical wastes has become a serious health and safety issue. This research aims to determine the safest and shortest transportation routes for medical waste vehicles. The safety scores used in this study were obtained in our previous study. The resulting safety scores were used in a multi-objective traveling salesman problem for deriving two objective functions, which are based on safety scores and total transportation distance. A conciliating solution was obtained by solving this linear programming model. The proposed model faced by health institutions in Istanbul has been applied for a specific district. According to the obtained results, suggestions for the direction of medical waste vehicles have been proposed.

除了人口增长和快速城市化之外，由于影响全世界的冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行，医疗废物的数量和种类也在迅速增加。 COVID-19 不仅增加了医疗废物的产生量，而且在治疗 COVID-19 时产生的医疗废物还具有很高的传播风险。对此，医疗废物的安全有效管理已成为严重的健康安全问题。本研究旨在确定医疗废物车辆最安全、最短的运输路线。本研究中使用的安全评分是在我们之前的研究中获得的。由此产生的安全评分用于多目标旅行推销员问题，以得出两个基于安全评分和总运输距离的目标函数。通过求解该线性规划模型获得了一个协调解。伊斯坦布尔卫生机构面临的拟议模型已应用于特定地区。根据所得结果，提出了医疗垃圾车的发展方向建议。