SPR-4404: Improve and Gain Efficiency in Winter Operations

The goal of this project is to understand the current efficiency of deployment of trucks and routes to service winter operations and explore approaches to optimize performance. This includes understanding available capacity, both trucks, drivers and routes, as well as plans to adjust the type of capacity and drivers to improve performance.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $150000
• Contract Numbers:

  SPR-4404

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Purdue University/Indiana Department of Transportation JHRP

  Purdue University
  1284 Civil Engineering Building, Room 4154
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907-1284
• Principal Investigators:

  Iyer, Ananth

  Dunlop, Steven

• Start Date: 20191101
• Expected Completion Date: 20210430
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Optimization; Routes and routing; Trucks; Winter; Winter maintenance
• Identifier Terms: Indiana Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01721968
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Indiana Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: SPR-4404
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 5 2019 1:35PM