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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Development of Road Temperature Sensing System using Optical Fiber

Abstract:

Road surface temperature distribution sensing using optical fiber sensor embedded in roadway and ESS data. Tests on two kilometer section of National Route No. 18 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The system could be used for winter maintenance planning.

Source(s):

7th World Congress on ITS, Kanto Regional Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Construction (Japan). For a copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2000

Author:

Imacho, et al.

Keywords:


Environmental Sensor Station (ESS)

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