URBAN STREET CLEANING

This report presents the results of the analysis of mechanized street cleaning in urban areas. It includes the description of a data bank that contains detailed information on a blockside basis for a 300 block area. On the basis of these data the strong interrelationship between sweeper routes and no-parking regulations is established. It is then noted that the effectiveness of street cleaning by mechanical brooms is limited by the presence of illegally parked cars along curbs. A model that relates enforcement to expected level of compliance is developed and validated with actual data. A class of implementable policies that yields satisfactory results is presented. These results are used to determine routes and schedules that increase the effectiveness of enforcement officers.

• Corporate Authors:

  Polytechnic Institute of New York

  Department of Electrical Engineering and Electrophysics
  Brooklyn, NY  United States  11201

  National Environmental Research Center

  Res Triangle Park, NC  United States 
• Authors:
  • LEVIS, A H
• Publication Date: 1975-2

Media Info

• Pagination: 161 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Cleaning; Economic efficiency; Level of service; Parking; Parking violations; Policy; Problem solving; Reviews; Routing; Sanitary engineering; Scheduling; Solid waste disposal; Streets; Surveys; Sweepers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Illegal parking; Services
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Policy;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091113
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: EPA-R-800938
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 26 1975 12:00AM