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Title:

A Mathematical Model for Winter Maintenance Operations Management

Abstract:

This thesis proposes a real-time scheduling model based on an Operations Research framework that can be used by maintenance managers to develop and evaluate alternative resources allocation plans for winter road maintenance operations. The scheduling model is implemented as an Integer Linear Program and is solved using off-the-shelf software packages. The scheduling model takes into account a wide range of road and weather condition factors such as road network topology, road class, weather forecasts, and contractual service levels, and produces a vehicle dispatch schedule that is optimal with respect to operating costs and quality of service. A number of heuristics are also explored to aid in efficient approximations to this problem.

Source(s):

Master's Thesis presented to the University of Waterloo

http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/mtrudel2005.pdf

Date: 2005

Author:

Trudel

Keywords:


Institutional issues
Decision support

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