Industry solution: winter service

As part of ensuring public safety (clearing and obligation to grit) municipalities must preserve local traffic safety on streets, squares and roads in particular during snow or ice conditions. This serves accident prevention and ensuring safe driving and walking.

This task often remains a major challenge for the local government. Effective execution of the scattering routes, competence in use and efficient management with tight financial resources are to be mastered. Without technological assistance, system tasks of this magnitude and complexity can no longer be tackled with due diligence.

The industry solution for winter service of mm-lab provides you with the following functions:

• Creation of scattered routes (reference routes) in a geographic information system (GIS) based on a map (street segment-oriented) or simply by driving down once one route and post-processing the resulting GPS data in GIS.
• Definition of priorities and of the winter maintenance standard to be carried out on the scattering route.
• Assignment of the scattered route to vehicles.
• Optional display and guidance of road scattering in the vehicle.
• Recording of the actually driven tour (GPS positions) with recording of vehicle signals (using the dozer blade), and of course the scattering settings (volume, width, etc.).
• The immediate transfer of all vehicle data to a central office and the presentation of this data allows operation control for the first time to effectively carry out their monitoring role.
• Intervention in the ongoing operations are now possible and allow a flexible response to changing weather conditions and the environmental situation. This allows for optimal performance of winter maintenance preventing economic damage by wintery road conditions.
• Fully automatic creation of the scattering log book and tour reports based on the recorded vehicle positions and data using street names on which scattering and cleaning has been performed. These reports enable long-term storage and possibly necessary evidence.
• Optionally, the system performs the fully automated follow-up of actually driven tours regarding the specified routes and presenting the documented results in tables (scatter point addition) or geographical markers of deviations from the reference route.
• Display of driven routes in the GIS based on maps (Navteq / Tele Atlas) or on OpenStreetMap.
• The lanes can either be colored with vehicle signals (spreader on / off, plow blade up / down, spread rate). This allows the operational management an effective post-tour or statistical studies regarding optimization potentials.