Designing and Applying a Decision Support System for DOT Fleet Assignment and Operation: Phase 2

Striping operations generate a significant workload for MoDOT maintenance operations. The requirement for each striping crew to replenish its stock of paint and other consumable items from a bulk storage facility, along with the necessity to make several passes on most of the routes to stripe all the lines on that road, introduce the potential for inefficiencies in the form of deadhead miles that striping crew vehicles must travel while not actively applying pavement markings. These inefficiencies generate unnecessary travel, wasted time, and vehicle wear. Phase 2 updates a 2015 project that developed a decision support tool for scheduling and routing road striping operations. The updates presented in the final report improve the optimization model, which generates more user-friendly outputs.

• Record URL:
  http://www.intrans.iastate.edu/mtc/index.cfm/research/project/project/-1928248927

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $40000
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT13-G-UTC37

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Midwest Transportation Center

  Iowa State University
  2711 S Loop Drive, Suite 4700
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664

  Missouri Department of Transportation

  1617 Missouri Boulevard
  P.O. Box 270
  Jefferson City, MO  United States  65102

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Midwest Transportation Center

  Iowa State University
  2711 S Loop Drive, Suite 4700
  Ames, IA  United States  50010-8664
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Missouri, Columbia

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Columbia, MO  United States  65211
• Principal Investigators:

  McGarvey, Ronald

• Start Date: 20151209
• Expected Completion Date: 20160630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer models; Decision support systems; Fleet management; Optimization; State departments of transportation; Striping; User interfaces (Computer science)
• Identifier Terms: Missouri Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01594548
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Midwest Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC37
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Mar 25 2016 9:49AM