Routeware Limited services

As local authorities consider service redesign and transformation of their municipal services it’s important that they accurately evaluate the costs and benefits of change. Current common elements of transformation programmes include changing the frequency of household waste collections, using different shift patterns to increase vehicle efficiency, and introducing new income-generating collections services such as chargeable garden waste and commercial collections. In addition, there remains the need to understand the costs of achieving target service levels, such as recycling or street cleanliness, to identify fleet requirements prior to purchase, and to continue reducing the operating costs of waste collection and street cleansing services.

Webaspx is one of the world’s leading route optimisation companies for waste collection, street cleansing and highway winter maintenance. As many local authorities don’t have the resource or the skill-set to run a round design project themselves, we provide round design and route optimisation as a consultancy service. Round Design (or route optimisation as it is sometimes called) in municipal services is about efficiently allocating resources while simultaneously solving the route optimisation problem. The whole point of a true round design project is that it doesn’t just route the work you decide should be given to a crew, it tells you how many crews you need, what work should be allocated to each and what the sequence and route should be.

Webaspx is regularly involved in providing environmental service companies and contractors with support for local authority procurement exercises for waste collection, street cleansing or highway winter maintenance services. By quickly helping private sector operators to make an evidence-based estimate of the resources required to deliver the contract or to evaluate the impact of an innovative service model, we reduce the risk and cost for both parties. We can also help local authorities to evaluate tender responses by enabling them to robustly assess the viability and assumptions behind a contractor’s bid.