The Vaisala IceCast Route Optimization service

Vaisala IceCast Route Optimization is a bespoke, impartial and comprehensive winter maintenance consultancy service.  It specialises in the development of winter treatment routes, to meet a range of targets, including cost reduction, selective treatment plans and resource reallocation.

The Route Optimization service is easily configurable to specific customer requirements. Precautionary (anti-icing), reactive (de-icing) and snow ploughing treatment regimes are all accommodated, as are pre-wetted and dry spreading methodologies.

Vaisala’s Route Optimization team has over a decade’s experience of designing anti-icing, de-icing and ploughing routes in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Whilst sophisticated computer tools are employed during the contract process, experience has shown that the production of successful routes is a two way process, requiring the additional flexibility of skilled personnel offering face-to-face consultation and advice. Vaisala's Route Optimization service offers the benefits of extensive in-house expertise, from highway engineers and GIS specialists to professional meteorologists and vehicle specialists.

The Route Optimization team act in partnership with the service provider to ensure that new routes meet all legislative guidelines and any other desired targets or benchmarks. Regular feedback loops allow stakeholders the opportunity for input during the design process, ensuring that the finalised routes are operationally acceptable to all.

The initial stages of a Route Optimization project will typically involve a review of current client operations to assess which alternative operational scenarios provide the best opportunities for savings. Typically, route design will commence after this review has been completed. However, this initial review can also be commissioned separately to deliver an independent  consultancy  report detailing current levels of service. This can be an invaluable method of benchmarking existing treatment regimes, and can be used as the framework for developing a structured series of future recommendations and actions.