Route Optimization for Solid Waste Collection

Cut to the Chase. Save Money and Optimize Collection Routes with ROC

Work in Municipal Solid Waste Management? We Devise the Most Efficient Routes

We Use Leading-Edge Software and Up-to-Date Data to Find the Optimal Routes for your Solid Waste Collection Vehicles

At Route Optimization Consultants, we don’t mind talking a little trash – in fact, we help companies and municipalities haul trash by the truckload. ROC is headed and staffed by experienced, project-tested route planning authorities who know the intricacies of the software and the idiosyncrasies of the waste collection process.

So we’re the reliable choice to turn to for better solid waste collection routes.

If you’re in charge of solving a vehicle routing problem for a private waste collection services company . . . or municipal solid waste (MSW) management for a county or city . . . or getting massive collection vehicles around their routes while minimizing fuel consumption and carbon emissions . . . Route Optimization Consultants is the right choice.

If you’re in the trash business, we want to talk with you. Rely on ROC for solid waste collection route optimization that really results in significant savings of time and money.

How Route Planning Software Makes the Complex Simple

Finding the Optimal Route for your Collection Vehicle to Collect Wastes? It’s a Big Problem

There’s a reason why we don’t use big paper maps for routing optimization for waste management anymore. It’s because there’s a better way nowadays: route optimizing software.

When you’re dealing with a sea of numbers – X number of collection vehicles with a total of Y collection points and Z hours in which to drive their collection routes – the math can get extremely complex very quickly.

Unless you have a beautiful mind, it requires a computer (the artificial kind) to calculate the best routes for your trucks to traverse. More to the point, it takes a specially designed software product to generate the most optimized routes.

That software calculates the driving distances, plots the stops, takes traffic conditions into account and more. It considers far more than manual route planners ever could, resulting (theoretically) in logical and efficient routes.

Route planning is intrinsically complex, and so’s the software used to do route optimization for solid waste collection. But the output provided by such software is itself complex, and so requires the eye of experience like that of Route Optimization Consultants to adequately interpret for successful implementation.

Throw those paper maps into the trash (or better yet, the appropriate recycling bin) and let’s get technical. Work with route optimization software that’s powerful enough to produce useful models that’d have your fleet of collection vehicles handling more pickups in less time!

ROC Boasts a Long Track Record of Route Planning Success

We Consistently Come Up With More Efficient Routes that Mean Real Cost Savings

There’s no substitute for experience. Hemingway wrote that “the shortest answer is doing the thing.” We’ve done this thing for years, overseeing several dozen individual projects and rerouting thousands of vehicles to better serve millions of collection points. Route optimization for solid waste collection is a major part of what we do at Route Optimization Consultants, and frankly always will be.

We understand integrated solid waste management, because we spend so much of our time working with private-sector and municipal solid waste management companies. We come into your solid waste collection route optimization project already armed with more than a passing knowledge of the industry.

Furthermore, we gain deeper understanding of the parameters of your particular solid waste management system – for example, we get to know the time windows you must work within, how many trucks you have in the fleet, how many collection points you need to serve, et cetera.

It’s a process we’ve executed many times in successfully implementing more efficient solid waste collection routes . . . saving companies and municipalities tens of millions of dollars along the way.

When You Optimize Routes, You’re Lowering Collection Cost

Significant Savings Go To the Waste Collection Company Running the Most Optimal Routes

Route optimization for solid waste collection is inherently a smart, sensible investment. That’s good news: Whether you’re responsible to the shareholders of a private waste collection company, or responsible to the customers of a municipal solid waste management agency, you have a fiduciary responsibility to steward capital well. You need to manage the money so the solid waste management system does the job demanded of it.

When you put more efficient routes into place, you’re contributing to cost-savings in several different ways:

• Less energy consumption
• Reduce costs for labor due to less collection time
• Fewer duplicate routes traversed
• Incurring tipping fees less frequently
• Avoiding fines and fees by complying with environmental protection regulations

Time is money, so the less time spent driving outdated collection routes, the more you save on operational costs. It’s probably the most persuasive benefit of route optimization for solid waste collection.

Optimal Routes Mean More Total Cost Savings

Think of Each Solid Waste Collection Vehicle as a Rolling Dollar Sign

Did we mention the significant savings you from optimization for solid waste collection? It’s kind of a big deal.

Generated waste is a valuable commodity. It pays to collect solid waste containers as expeditiously as possible, truck it along a predefined transportation route, and dump it at a transfer station or other disposal sites.

You know where the value comes from. Solid waste contains recyclable materials which can be sold and repurposed. Plus, solid waste produces methane gas which can be collected and converted to natural gas, helping solve the problem of environmental pollution.

But none of that is possible without a solid waste collection routing system running at maximum operational efficiency. Optimize routes to make sure you’re getting the most bang for your truck.

Route Planning for a Residential Area or a Place of High Population Density

We Find Optimized Scenarios to Collect Solid Waste in Various Environments

One of the reasons why route optimization for solid waste collection is exceedingly complex is because no two problems are alike, at all.

For example, routing garbage trucks through a suburban residential area is a different vehicle routing problem than scheduling them for heavily urbanized areas with more variable traffic conditions, or with a series of one-way streets.

In addition, individual jurisdictions may impose their own regulations on time windows and carbon emissions, to curb the environmental impact of excessive sound and greenhouse gas.

There’s a lot to take into account in the route optimization process. That’s why Route Optimization Consultants takes the time and effort to analyze the specifics of your waste management routing scenario to determine the best option of all optimization possibilities.

Whatever the density of the neighborhood you’re serving, ROC produces the route optimization models that’ll work for each scenario.

Vehicle Tracking and Route Planning from the Sky!

A Bit of Tech-Speak: Mapping with Geographic Information System (GIS) Data

Over the years the research conducted on GIS-supported optimization software by Route Optimization Consultants has been voluminous. When it comes to accurate and sufficient data collection for generating a proposed framework for improved waste collection routes, we know our stuff.

For example, ROC has devised better routes for municipal solid waste collection clients using an ArcGIS network analyst tool which mimicked standardized fire maps.

GIS comes in pretty handy when doing route optimization for solid waste collection. That data is used by the most popular route optimizing software, including EasyRoute, FleetRoute, and RouteSmart.

Route planning is better with up-to-date data. Maximize the efficiency of any solid waste management operation with software-driven solutions by Route Optimization Consultants.

Contact Route Optimization Consultants for Better Route Planning

Call, Click or Email ROC and Benefit from Smarter Waste Collection Routes

Don’t go it alone when on a quest for more efficient routes for your solid waste collection vehicles. Work with an experienced team of solid waste collection route planners: Route Optimization Consultants.

It’s easy to start the process of driving better routes and improving operational efficiency: Just call us, email us or send us a message from this page right here.

How to contact Route Optimization Consultants:

• Submit the short Contact Us form on the right-hand side of this webpage (and also at the bottom)
• Email us at in**@**************************ts.com
• Call us at 571-316-0676

Ensure that your private-sector or municipal solid waste collection system is running at peak efficiency. Get software-driven route planning solutions by Route Optimization Consultants.