Abstract

Towards optimized city logistics: from person transport to snow plow
Track: Public Works
Authors: Timo Widbom

Until recent years local goverment and city logistics has been ineffective and expensive in the cities of Finland. In the city of Pori millions of euros is spent for transport, winter operations and other public works and municipal services every year. In the last couple of years city officials and decision-makers have noticed the importance of optimized logistics to reducing transport costs. We have started multiple GIS projects to optimize winter operations,(i.e. snow plow and street sweeping), person transport (e.g. disability transport), mail-in service and food transport. In collaboration with ESRI-Finland, city of Pori is developing remarkable optimization system for municipal transport and winter operations.