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Title:

Development of Winter-Road-Management Guidance System Based on Road Icing Prediction with Optical Sensor on Meihan National Highway

Abstract:

The Nara National Highway Work Office is developing a system for predicting road icing in support of measures for dealing with icing and excessive snow, the purpose being that of realizing high-level, efficient winter road maintenance on the Meihan National Highway. A prototype system has been built and tested over a two-year period. It has been ound to be effective in raising the level of winter road managment through higher efficiency of spreading anti-icing materials and decision support.

Source(s):

8th World Congress on ITS; Ministry of Land, Nippon Koei Co. and Japan Weather Association (Japan). For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2001

Author:

Kuwajima, et al

Keywords:


Ice/Frost
Winter maintenance

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