• The snow plow routing problem is an application of the structure of Arc Routing Problems (ARPs) and Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) to snow removal that...
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  • destination. Arc routing problems can be applied to garbage collection, school bus route planning, package and newspaper delivery, deicing and snow removal with...
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    problem Subway Challenge Tube Challenge Vehicle routing problem Graph exploration Mixed Chinese postman problem Arc routing Snow plow routing problem...
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  • geographical routing algorithms to find the shortest path efficiently. The CARP is NP-hard arc routing problem. A large-scale capacitated arc routing problem (LSCARP)...
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    popularisation of the motor car, it was found that plowing alone was insufficient for removing all snow and ice from the roadway, leading to the development...
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  • The problem has been proven to be NP-complete by Papadimitriou. The mixed Chinese postman problem often arises in arc routing problems such as snow ploughing...
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    (February 12, 2024). "Jeremy Renner Shows Off His 'Hawkeye' Moves After Snow Plow Injury Recovery in Super Bowl Ad". Variety. Retrieved March 27, 2024....
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    metropolitan areas, effectively mobilized plow and road salt crews can clear 10 or more inches of overnight snow and ice accumulation before the morning...
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  • applications include transportation planning problems such as planning routes for a fleet of snowplows to plow all the streets of a city, in minimum total...
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    storm. Image shows the city garbage collection trucks outfitted with snow plows and scoops. Corner in Hells Kitchen neighborhood, NYC, during the February...
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    Due to the date, many people took warnings of the storm less seriously. Plows had started to be put away for the summer and hardware stores still had...
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    prevailed at the airfield, with low ceilings, fog, and blowing snow. The runway had been plowed about ten minutes earlier.: 1, 7–8  At around 11:10 EST, according...
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    rights. 1918 Canadian War bond posters depicting three French women pulling a plow that had been constructed for horses Because Britain still maintained control...
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    The snow fell too quickly for plow trucks to keep up. Plows were further hampered by the number of cars stuck on the roads. In Boston, the deep snow overwhelmed...
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    15 made the snow harder-packed, almost ice-like, which required heavy-duty plows. By December 16, about nine of the city's 15 bus routes were finally...
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    making many of them impassable. A concentrated effort to plow (and tow as necessary) – called the "Snow Blitz" by the press – managed to make significant progress...
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    snowstorms bring fierce winds and create impassible snow drifts that are not plowed; this effectively puts higher landmarks—including the summit—out of reach...
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    115 salt trucks to clear roads. A man was killed after being struck by a snow plow in Beltsville, Maryland. Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an...
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    were allowed, they stopped over a pit where a man detached the collector (plow) and the motorman placed a trolley pole on the overhead. In the US, all these...
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    city trucks loaded with plowed snow dumped their contents into the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers eventually causing major problems with the natural flow...
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    except for the third weekend of March when there was too much snow for the road to be plowed. 2011-2015: The Angeles Crest Highway above La Canada Flintridge...
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    trail" or "Tumen path." It was used mainly in winter on ice and compacted snow. Delivery of goods was very expensive, so the Upper Amur company started...
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    fired steam and later diesel electric power to drive plows, flangers, spreaders, and rotary snow plows, most of the wooden snowsheds have long since been...
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    Railway, the new owners at the Northern Pacific moved its modern rotary snow plow to the transcontinental line crossing the Cascades. Thereafter, winter...
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    same year, John Deere, the inventor of the self-scouring steel plow, relocated his steel plow company from Grand Detour, Illinois, to Moline. At the time...
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    population. According to the county historian for Warren County, Ohio, a local plow manufacturer called John E. Dey travelled widely in the early 19th century...
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    February 2023. "Snow removal". Arlanda.se. Archived from the original on 23 July 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2013. "The World's Fastest Snow Plow". Infrastructures...
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    supplied was suitable for humanitarian but not military mine clearance. Mine plows, which would allow Western supplied tanks to advance through a minefield...
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    injuries". Navajo-Hopi Observer. Retrieved January 25, 2024. "SUV plows through parade route in New Mexico injuring 15 people including two police officers"...
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    needed] Linn was a pioneer in snow removal before the practice was embraced in rural areas, with a nine-foot steel v-plow and sixteen foot adjustable leveling...
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