Road maintenance during the heavy snowfall is an important problem. In Sweden the government and municipalities together spend close to 0.3 thousand million SEK every year for winter road maintenance. Approximately half of it is snow removal cost, which in turn to a large extent depends on the routing of the snow-ploughing vehicles. In this thesis work, we wish to develop an application framework for optimized routing operation for these vehicles so that the total operational cost can be reduced at a significant level. In general, there are different characteristics of snow ploughing depending on the routing procedure, one is done after the snowfall and the other is during the snowfall. In this thesis work, we are only interested to find the set of routing paths during the snowfall where duration of snowfall is unknown. We present a new way of generating an initial solution that deals with the real operational network. The optimization algorithm works upon this initial solution and try to reduce the number of periodic paths.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Application Framework for Snow Removal Routing Problem


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2010-01-01


    Type of media :

    Theses


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629




    Crane cars solve snow-removal problem

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1922



    SNOW REMOVAL

    GREENBERGER HAL P | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access

    SNOW REMOVAL

    GREENBERGER HAL P | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access