PLANNING METHODOLOGY OF EFFECTIVE PATROL OF SPARSELY ALLOCATED WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES

Abstract

Water supply areas of small water undeirtakings are generally small and diffused. Therefore, there are lots of water supply facilities and they are sparsely allocated. Those facilities have to be inspected periodically. The method to plan the route which can patrol those facilities effectively was considered in this paper. The patrol is carried out within working time every day. Therefore, the minimum total patrol time with the constraint of daily working time was considered. The way to induce automatic analyzer which make patrol unnecessary was also considered. The proposed method was applied to real undertakings which had lots of facilities by unification of waterworks.