In Spring 2017, the City of Huntington Police Department collaborated with Marshall students from the Department of Mathematics to improve the city’s expense on garbage collection — currently some trucks collect more garbage than others and must make extra runs to the landfill accordingly.
The students investigated ways to balance the loads collected by the city’s trucks by gathering tonnage data by trucks over a year’s period, identifying correlating socioeconomic factors to trash production, developing a model to predict tonnage collected by the trucks, and writing a computer routine to find potential improvements to the balance of the routes.
| Project Supervisor: | Michael Schroeder, Department of Mathematics |
| Students: | David Hannan, Zachary Jones, Steven Rollins |
| Project Liaisons: | Jim Insco, Director of Public Works, City of Huntington Tony Johnson, Lead Foreman for Sanitation/Trash, City of Huntington. |
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