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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Data Integration and Planning for the Installation of Automatic Bridge Anti-icing Systems

Abstract:

This is the first of two papers focused on the issue of bridge prioritization for installation of automatic anti-icing systems. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the integration of data from various sources in a geographic information system (GIS) for the planning of automatic bridge anti-icing system installations. Database integration involved merging information on various criteria that were deemed important in the selection of bridges for anti-icing system installation. Data sources included: Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) bridge inventory, NDOR state accident data, NDOR maintenance yard data, archived weather data from the High Plains Regional Climate Center and the National Weather Service, and commercially available Nebraska streets, rivers, and streams data.

Source(s):

82nd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mid-America Transportation Center. For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2003

Author:

Khattak, Pesti, Kannan, McCoy

Keywords:


Bridge
Winter storm
Decision support
Safety
Pavement condition
Winter maintenance

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