Senior Design Team sdmay19-18 • Real time Route Optimization

Problem Statement

After snowfall, it is important to clear both road segments as well as driveways, so that: (a) travelers safety is improved, and (b) safe access is enabled for employees, customers and suppliers. Car-slip accidents are quite common during winter seasons, especially in North America. Thus an effective management of snow cleaning/removal is of the utmost societal importance – however, snow cleaning operations could incur high cost, both in terms of human labor and financial resources.

At the current state of the affairs, the snow operation dispatchers or the target users of our project, may use some specific ways to collect data in order to get the status of the trucks location, dispenser info, and road conditions during snow operations - however, the data collection, analysis and decision-making are done in a rather ad-hoc manner.

Hence, our team is aiming at providing a systematic approach and generate a solution that will allow them to have a better experience of gathering real-time information of trucks and controlling the real-time situation of arrangement of fleets during snow operations. Our solution is intended to enable dispatchers to perform a more effective decision-making in terms of tasks re-assignments and trucks re-routing (both in terms of road segments to be cleaned, as well as reloading with supplies and servicing).

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