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Emerald Coast Utilities Auth., FL
Fast-Tracked FleetRoute™ Route Optimization Project

City of Santa Monica, CA
Strategic Review and Procurement of Solid Waste Services

City of New Orleans, LA
City of New Orleans-Auditing Solid Waste Collection

Rivanna Solid Waste Auth., VA
Strategic planning, including public outreach.

King County, WA
Independent review of solid waste transfer and waste export system plan resulting in recommendations and strategies to maximize landfill life and enhance services

Allentown, PA
Procurement that led to a 50% to 70% lower collection rate increase than in surrounding municipalities.

Baton Rouge, LA
Procurement leading to State-of-the-Art Single Stream Recycling Program and a 49% reduction in cost

Fauquier County, VA
Procurement resulting in C&D processing and recovery facility that increases recycling, maximizes landfill life and generates revenues

SOCRRA, MI
Procurement leading to saving over 16% and beating high fuel collection costs

City of Portland, Maine
C&D recycling facility procurement leading to approximate savings of $1M /year

City of Arlington, Texas
Procurement and contracting for lease and operation of City's Landfill leading to up-front payments in excess of $21 million, including over $5.1 million going into a trust fund for closure and post-closure care of the Landfill.

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
Routing for new curbside recycling collection service leading to fewer routes, trucks and crew, lower costs, and a balanced workload.

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
Study and implementation of a new award-winning District Energy System

City of Fort Worth, Texas
Planning and procuring collection and processing services for the various solid waste and recyclables streams generated.

City of Edmond, Oklahoma
Re-route of residential collection system leading to reduction in the number of routes from 40 to 30

United States Environmental Protection Agency
Major contributor to an EPA report entitled "Characterization of Building-Related Constructions and Demolition Debris in the United States"

FleetRoute™ Route Optimization Software Helps Emerald
Coast Utilities Authority Successfully Launch New Trash/
Recycling Collection Services
Fast-Tracked Implementation of FleetRoute™ Contributes to Efficient
Routing and Smooth Transition

Truck In late 2008, the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA) in Pensacola, FL, added 13,000 customers, made changes to trash collection services, and added recycling collection services. With the challenge of these upcoming major changes, and with very little time to react, ECUA selected GBB and technology partner C2Logix to assist
in streamlining the operation, reducing costs, and ensuring a smooth transition. The fast-tracked implementation of the FleetRoute™ route optimization software resulted in balanced routes, reduced overtime, increased trash/recycling collection efficiency, and easier integration of new clients to existing routes.

“We were facing a great challenge, and GBB’s route optimization project team greatly contributed to making the transition easier and successful,” noted Randy Rudd, ECUA’s Director of Sanitation. “We are now utilizing FleetRoute™ for both residential and commercial routes. The software makes route creation easier and more efficient than manual routing, especially given our high-growth environment.”

ECUA Map ECUA, with its fleet of 80 trucks, provides solid waste and yard trash collection to 65,000 residential properties and commercial businesses within the unincorporated areas of Escambia County, Florida. Near the end of 2008, ECUA won the contract for the northern area of Escambia County, adding an additional 13,000 customers. At this time, ECUA also (Continued from page 1) changed to weekly trash collection from twice-aweek pickup and added weekly recycling collection. The GBB Project Team was able to incorporate the new customers, set up weekly recycling, and make the change to weekly collection in just over a month.

Since recycling collection was new to ECUA’s customers, GBB added new customers and updated the recycling routes on a weekly basis for a month, with approximately
4,000 customers added each week. GBB then prepared the ECUA’s data for use with FleetRoute™, and staff was trained to use the software and create/update routes in-house. GBB also implemented the Route Looker-Upper™, a web-based tool allowing residents to look up their new trash collection date.

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