Vehicle Routing Optimization for Deicing Salt Spreading in Winter Highway Maintenance

Optimization of spreading vehicle routing for deicing salt play important roles in improving operational efficiency of snow removal, reducing environmental pollution, and reducing road maintenance cost. In this paper, characteristics of different snow highway removal modes in winter and factors to affect vehicle routing decision making for deicing salt spreading are analyzed. Combined with road network structure, capacity constraints, and load balance constraints, vehicle routing model for spreading deicing salt is constructed, which can be solved by a designed genetic algorithm.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.108
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813022349
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18770428
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 Binglei Xie et al.
• Authors:
  • Xie, Binglei
  • Li, Ying
  • Jin, Lei
• Conference:
  • 13th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2013)
  • Location: Shenzhen , China
  • Date: 2013-8-13 to 2013-8-16
• Publication Date: 2013-11-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 945-953
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 96
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Decision making; Deicing; Pollution; Routing; Snow removal; Winter maintenance
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01515149
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 21 2014 3:16PM