{"id":7670,"date":"2022-03-28T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/blog\/lexington-route-optimization-speeds-up-rerouting-process-threefold-making-collection-more-efficient\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:12:01","slug":"lexington-route-optimization-speeds-up-rerouting-process-threefold-making-collection-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/blog\/lexington-route-optimization-speeds-up-rerouting-process-threefold-making-collection-more-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"In Lexington, Route Optimization Speeds Up Rerouting Process Threefold, Making Collection More Efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lexington, Kentucky, is a growing city. That means waste management is growing as well. With about 90,000 customers today, they\u2019re growing by 2,700 carts per year across all commodities. Most residential growth is outside the city center, beyond the main road that encircles the city. And without route optimization<\/a>, waste collection routes were becoming significantly off balance.<\/p>\n

Eddie Dean, IT Manager for Lexington\u2019s Division of Waste Management<\/a>, relies on Routeware for route optimization over the city\u2019s one million monthly service points.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re currently running more than 90 routes for trash, recycling, and organics. But the workload was uneven. In the city center, drivers were picking up 600 carts on average, while those in the faster-growing outskirts, had up to 1,600 carts on their route,\u201d says Dean. \u201cThis translated into varying shift lengths. While some drivers had six-hour days, others were working ten or more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city was dealing with other complexities as well. Their fleet consists of multiple vehicle types: Rear loaders, minis, multi-packs, hop-on trucks, arm- and rear-loader trucks, and side-loaders. Vehicle type needed to be integrated into the plan, since some trucks work better in certain locations, and simply don\u2019t fit into others \u2014 like tight alleyways. In addition to multi-cart residential pickup, routes include 8,000 rolling carts at business locations and 4,000 dumpsters that require specialized vehicles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lexington, Kentucky, is a growing city. That means waste management is growing as well. With about 90,000 customers today, they\u2019re growing by 2,700 carts per year across all commodities. Most residential growth is outside the city center, beyond the main road that encircles the city. And without route optimization, waste collection routes were becoming significantly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resourcetype-blog","aud-government","loc-north-america","sol-collection-operations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/routeware.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}