Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Go Light with the Salt, Please: Developing Information Systems for Winter Roadway Safety
Abstract:
The FHWA has established an international, pooled-fund consortium to take the lead in setting and promoting an agenda for RWIS-related research and implementation. Known as Aurora, the consortium comprises transportation agencies, universities, and other organizations with a stake in improving winter roadway maintenance. Aurora's mission has taken on a new urgency. Recent research in Canada has spotlighted another, often overlooked benefit of anti-icing programs: less salt on the roadway results in less salt runoff into the adjoining environment. This article discusses the toxicity of anti-icing/deicing chemicals, anti-icing trategies, RWIS and ESS, the use of environmental data and the environment.
Source(s):
TR News 230, Jan/Feb 2004 issue
https://trid.trb.org/view/698773
Date: 2004
Author:
Brink, Auen
Keywords:
Environment
Road Weather Information System (RWIS)
Environmental Sensor Station (ESS)
Winter maintenance
Observing network
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