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Title:

Optimal Routing for Minimum Service Time of Winter Road Maintenance with Truck Capacity and Fleet Size Constraints

Accession Number:

01473176

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

To improve road safety under adverse weather (e.g., snow and ice condition), a designated network have to be anti-iced/de-iced before and/or after the arrival of a snow storm or freezing rain. A model is developed to optimize vehicle routing that minimizes the service time needed for anti-icing/anti-icing/de-icing operation, subject to truck capacity and fleet size constraints. With network transformation techniques and the fair workload concept, the study vehicle routing problem can be solved via dynamic programming (DP). The solution approach was tested on a general network with practical operational data. The results are promising and computationally efficient. A sensitivity analysis is conducted by varying the model parameters, including fleet size, truck capacity and operating speed.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD65 Winter Maintenance.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-2287

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Chien, I-Jy
Yu, Haifeng

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-2287

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:30PM