Automate and optimize waste collection routing
Every hauler has a system that records which stops are due today. Many still run the same static route sheets every week, and decide which truck collects each stop, in what order, and when to break off for the transfer station as separate steps. Let's solve them as one problem.
One solve plans every stop, every truck, and every disposal trip
Timefold solves stop assignment, route sequencing, and disposal trips as one optimization problem. Stream separation, truck payload, permitted facilities, facility opening hours, curbside and access windows, and the driver's working day are enforced as hard constraints, so every route can actually be driven before it reaches the cab. Within those rules, the model drives the shortest total distance, then the shortest route time.
Where Timefold goes beyond static route sheets
Four places where static route sheets fall short. Timefold bakes each one into the model.
Disposal trips are part of the route
The model sends a full truck to a permitted facility and back to its stops, timed to arrive before the gate closes.
Streams never mix
Each truck carries one stream per route, so a recycling load is never contaminated by a trash stop.
Missed pickups surface before the complaints
A stop no truck can collect in time is flagged at planning time, so it can be re-routed instead of discovered by a resident.
Dispatcher decisions stay put
Lock a stop to a truck and it stays there, while the model optimizes everything around it.
Every detour costs fuel, truck wear, and scarce driver hours
Collection is the biggest line in a solid waste budget, and it runs on fuel-hungry trucks and drivers that are hard to hire. Route inefficiency shows up directly in all three, and in the penalties when a pickup is missed.
Of a city's solid waste budget goes to collection
The single largest cost line, ahead of transfer and disposal.
The fuel of a passenger car over the same distance
Heavy loads and constant stop-and-go make every avoidable detour expensive.
On-time collection is the common expectation
What municipal contracts commonly expect each month, with penalties when collection falls short.
Missed pickups a year in a single large city
Each one is a complaint, a re-route, and a possible contract penalty.
Constraints the model expresses today
When scheduling works, everything works.
Less waste. More control. Teams that trust the plan.