Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2010, 12(11):46-49 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2010.3A.46-49

Proposal for the Size of the Fleet to Provide Winter Road Maintenance

Miroslav Gabor1
1 Department of Software Technologies, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Zilina, Slovakia

The article describes an optimisation model which was used to create the operation plan of winter road maintenance [6]. The model takes into consideration a number of factors of road description, such as road network topology, road categories and level of services. They result in suggesting the necessary number of vehicles the centres of winter road maintenance should have to be able to keep, the servicing time limit given by the operation plan in case of a calamity. The model also proposes what the most optimal vehicle routing would be timewise.

Keywords: winter road maintenance, road gritting, vehicle routing problem, fleet sizing

Published: October 31, 2010  Show citation

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Gabor, M. (2010). Proposal for the Size of the Fleet to Provide Winter Road Maintenance. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 12(3A), 46-49. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2010.3A.46-49
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