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Balancing routes and workloads in a continually growing metropolis
The City of Lexington, Kentucky’s Divison of Waste Management touches one million service points per month across more than 90 trash, recycling, and yard waste routes.
Key case study takeaways:
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Balanced over 90 routes, reducing deltas to within 200-300 stops — with several truck types being used
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Equalized driver workload across routes
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Created opportunity for continuous improvement to route design to accommodate future growth
“I don’t know of another tool that could give us the flexibility to do this much work as quickly as we did.”