Waste collection and street sweeping route design
Discover all the benefits of a solution that helps overcome the typical challenges of designing waste collection and street sweeping routes.
Arcoda enables environmental service providers to transform waste collection and street sweeping route design from an activity based on individual experience into a digital, map-based process that can be continually improved, creating a foundation for services that are more efficient, measurable and compliant with quality standards.
Who is it for?
Back-office staff responsible for route design and operations managers.
Benefits
Lower operating costs and environmental impact
Designing more efficient routes reduces vehicle mileage and service completion times, lowering fuel consumption, maintenance costs and emissions generated by the service.
Operational continuity and better use of know-how
Routes become a shared, reusable digital company resource. This reduces the service provider’s dependence on individual drivers’ experience and ensures service continuity even in the event of absences, staff replacements or turnover.
Faster, more flexible route design
The solution speeds up route creation and modification, making it easier to adapt services to changes in local conditions, traffic arrangements and operational organisation.
More objective decisions grounded in local conditions
Route design is based on mapping, existing routes and data on activities actually carried out, combining staff experience with objective information. This reduces subjective assessments and produces routes that better reflect actual operating conditions.
More accurate, repeatable service scheduling
Digital, validated and optimised routes provide a reliable basis for scheduling services and generating more accurate service orders. Effective organisational models can also be replicated and adapted more easily to other areas.
In depth
Waste collection and street sweeping routes: from informal knowledge to a shared company resource
Arcoda’s solution addresses service providers’ need to turn often informal route knowledge into a digital company resource that can be updated and shared. Designing waste collection and street sweeping routes is complicated by changing street networks, route restrictions, differences between service sections and non-service travel sections, new areas to serve and changes in working practices. When routes depend on the experience of a few individuals or on manual processing, it also becomes difficult to standardise them, keep them up to date and use them consistently in subsequent service scheduling.
The solution in practice: design, refine, validate, share
Arcoda’s technology meets service providers’ needs by enabling them to create or acquire routes from maps, geospatial files, historical GPS tracks and routes recorded directly in the field (route recorder). They can then check and modify the routes, add service information and finalise them using dedicated GIS tools. The result is a reliable operational resource shared with Arcoda systems or ECOS4OPERATION or, on request, third-party management software to schedule services and generate service orders. These orders are then used for route guidance provided by Arcoda’s dedicated solution.
Artificial intelligence for even more efficient route design
By integrating HIVE Waste from our partner HPA / Terranova Software, the solution adds an artificial intelligence (AI) optimisation engine to route design. The enhanced solution combines optimisation algorithms applied to historical data, simultaneously analysing staff, vehicles, equipment, collection points, shifts, load capacity, priorities, time windows and geographical constraints. On this basis, it identifies efficient routes and operational configurations, helping to balance workloads, optimise resource use and simulate alternative scenarios before they are implemented.
Features
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Create routes from route history, imported geospatial files, on-site recordings (route recorder) or manual drawing
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Modelling tools available through a web portal
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Street editor with real-time checks for conflicts between changes to the road network graph and existing routes
Products that make up the solution
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