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Title:

Deploying the Winter Maintenance Support System (MDSS) in Iowa

Abstract:

The development of a prototype winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) is part of the FHWA's effort to produce a prototype tool for decision support to winter road maintenance managers to help make the highways safer for the traveling public. The MDSS is based on leading diagnostic and prognostic weather research capabilities and road condition algorithms, which are being developed at national research centers. It is anticipated that components of the prototype MDSS developed by this project will ultimately be deployed by road operating agencies, including state DOTs, and generally supplied by private vendors. In 2003, The Iowa DOT was chosen as a field test bed for the continuing development of this important research program. The MDSS field demonstration evaluated the MDSS by operating the systems in a real time winter environment. This also allowed the users to work the system and verify the data.

Source(s):

Iowa State University, Center for Transportation Research and Education and Iowa DOT

https://intrans.iastate.edu/app/uploads/2018/03/kroegerwinter.pdf

Date: 2003

Author:

Kroeger, Burkheimer

Keywords:


Decision support

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