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Residential routing requires the vehicle
to make a stop at most addresses on a street. The challenges
are to reduce deadheading of the vehicle and to minimize fragmentation
of the routes (keeping the routes logically contained inside
of neighborhoods). FleetRoute™ has the unique ability
to first develop "Neighborhood Routes," which keep
the route areas confined to geographic and community boundaries.
"Neighborhood Routes" improve safety by keeping
routes contained and not spanning across major highways. "Path
Routes" are then created by FleetRoute™ to optimize
the travel path. The results of this two stage routing process
are routes that require less modification after being field-tested.
Commercial routing requires stops at addresses
that are dispersed across an area. FleetRoute™ develops
routes that not only optimize the path to the customer, but
also chooses the optimal points in the routes to dump, chooses
the closest to a dump, and minimizes the distance traveled
to the disposal site.
FleetRoute’s unique Neighborhood Routing
capability is also applied to establishing collection districts
and may be used for establishing Area Routes, which do not
define a travel path for the drivers. Area Routes are often
used when complete street or customer data is not available
or is cost-prohibitive to develop.
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