Waste Collection Route Optimization Solutions
Balanced workloads, sequenced stops, and maximized fleet efficiency start here. Eliminate overlapping routes and manual dispatch bottlenecks with solutions purpose-built for residential, commercial, and roll-off operations.
Our solutions provide reliable, real-world results to help you conquer garbage truck route optimization challenges and maximize your investment. Benefit from our experience to achieve exceptional results.
01Benefits
Simplify territory planning
Route management and planning ensures that your routes will be covered. Easily plan for contingencies by creating multiple route plans for your operations or quickly modify an existing route.
Balance routes for drivers
Create balanced routes for drivers based on time, volume or lifts. If a driver calls in sick you can easily spread that route to other drivers. Quickly onboard new drivers with accurate and up-to-date route plans.
Reduce
route costs
Increase efficiency on the road by removing wasted miles. Decrease fuel costs with practical and effective routes. Reduced CO2 through more efficient route plans.
Enhance
safety
Keep drivers safe by creating balanced routes that reduce fatigue. Plan routes with same side service so drivers don’t have to repeatedly cross roads. Build routes that minimize the need for drivers to back-up, make u-turns, or take dangerous turns.
Burnaby, BC transformed waste collection operations and improved efficiency by 5% in less than 6 months.
“RouteSmart’s dynamic solutions solved what other routing tools could not.”
City of Burnaby, BC
02Outcomes & Resources
37%
Franklin, TN save $1,083,812 with RouteSmart, resulting in a 37% reduction in annual operating
2400 miles
Washington, DC Department of Public Works routes bulky pickups with RouteSmart to save 2400 miles annually.
5%
Burnaby improved waste collection efficiency by 5% in less than 6 months.
3-4x
Rumpke used RouteSmart to help target profitable new customers and increased response rate by 3-4x.
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03Waste Route Optimization Solutions
PLAN YOUR OPERATIONS WITH CONFIDENCE – Each day, our proven waste collection routing software allows companies to provide more efficient service to millions of households and businesses through advanced fleet management. We optimize waste collection routes for residential waste & recycling, bulky trash work orders, commercial, and industrial collection.
Residential Waste &
Recycling Collection
Build better residential waste collection routes with detail and precision. Plan safer routes, optimize territories and sequences.
Commercial
Route Planning
Balance weekly patterns and workloads to increase stops per hour. Manage service for high-priority customers and adhere to strict time windows.
Roll-Off
Route Optimization
Complete daily route plans in a fraction of the time. Reduce empty rail time and maximize pulls per truck.
See How Much You Could Be Saving
Optimized routes mean fewer miles, less overtime, and lower operating costs. Enter your details to calculate the savings for your operation.
Our clients have achieved real results and real value with RouteSmart solutions.
Proven waste management route planning solutions
Our systems integrate with your technology stack to form a complete route planning solution that meets the demanding operational needs of your business.
RouteSmart Optimize
Get the full power of RouteSmart—without the complexity. RouteSmart Optimize is designed for waste collection operations, making it easy for teams to plan territories, balance routes, and optimize sequencing. No GIS experience required.
Be productive in hours, not weeks, with fast implementation and simplified workflows that accelerate time to value. Optimize residential, commercial, and roll-off routes. Model real-world constraints and continuously improve routes using the same proven optimization, safety logic, and industry knowledge RouteSmart has delivered for decades—now in a much easier-to-use solution.
RouteSmart Engine
Integrate RouteSmart Engine directly into your client-side systems to support dynamic daily route balancing and sequencing for roll-off, bulky collection, and more services. RouteSmart Engine web services provide access to our powerful optimization algorithms through a standard APl, accelerating your implementation and return on investment.
RouteSmart Plan
Support GIS-based analysis of route operations by leveraging the world’s leading desktop GIS system from Esri. RouteSmart Plan is integrated with RouteSmart Optimize and RouteSmart Engine to allow you to import, analyze, and edit your data.
SmartSuite Mobile & Web
SmartSuite Mobile is the exclusive in-cab solutions for Android phones and tablets that meets the high density, precision navigation requirements of residential, commercial and roll-off waste collection routes. SmartSuite Web services are managed in the cloud from a map-based platform that enables teams to track day-to-day service activity in real time, make immediate and effective operational decisions, and view service history.
Struggling with Routing Challenges? We Can Help.
Missed pickups, overtime costs, frustrated crews—inefficient routing creates serious problems.
RouteSmart helps fix the most common collection route issues by cutting miles, fuel, and frustration.
We know good routes when we see them.
Keep your routes balanced, compact, and efficient. Measure the results of your route optimization efforts and see improvements with the Route Health Score.
Get in touch with our industry experts.
Our industry pros have years of experience working with the most successful waste haulers in the country. Let us help you fix the route collection chaos.
