Fuel Savings and Reduction of Operating Expenses Prompt Communities to Go High-Tech
FleetRoute™ Adopted by Cities with 15,000 to 233,000 homes to
service: Stillwater, OK, and Baltimore, MD
The Cities of Baltimore,
MD, and Stillwater, OK,
don’t have much in
common, but when it
comes to routing their
fleet of refuse / recyclable collection trucks, they both opted to go high-tech with GBB and FleetRoute™ route optimization software.
After careful consideration, they will move from using traditional maps with markers and pushpins to FleetRoute™ technology. Their decisions are expected to reap measurable benefits. Improved customer service, fuel savings, reduced carbon footprint, route/crew accountability, balanced/ equalized routes, and reduced time to reroute are the key benefits they’ll see.
City of Stillwater, OK
The City of Stillwater’s Waste Management
Division, serving 15,000 residential
units, has begun a six-month automated
collection pilot program in an effort to
explore the benefits and challenges of
transitioning from manual to automated
residential collection service. A crosssection
of the community was chosen for this pilot program, consisting of approximately
2,650 residential units divided
into four different routes. The GBB Service
Bureau developed the initial routes,
provided installation and set up, and also
trained City staff to do future rerouting
in-house.
“Routing efficiently for the automated vehicle’s single-side collection is complex,
so the City took this opportunity to
ensure that we are creating optimal
routes right off the bat.” noted David
Higgins, Stillwater Public Works Operations
Manager. “The City selected
FleetRoute™ to help create and optimize
the efficiency of the four routes.”
City of Baltimore, MD
Working through the Northeast Maryland
Waste Disposal Authority, the GBB
FleetRoute™ Service Bureau is currently
optimizing routes for up to 100 daily operating
waste collection trucks servicing
233,000 homes in the City of Baltimore.
With two collections per week, running
six days per week, this project equates to
generating up to 300 unique day routes
for the City. Once the initial routes are
created, City staff will be trained to use
the software and take over routing responsibilities.
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