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Winter gritting involves spreading a de-icing agent (usually salt) on to roads when frost, ice or snow may make them dangerously slippery. This paper compares two approaches to the problem of managing this operation efficiently: a normative approach and a prescriptive approach. It concludes that a simple measure of routeing efficiency may be misleading when applied to specific situations.
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Eglese, R., Li, L. Efficient Routeing for Winter Gritting. J Oper Res Soc 43, 1031–1034 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1992.160
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1992.160