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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Improvements to Snow and Ice Control on European Highways

Abstract:

The European Commission project "COST Action 344: Improvements to Snow and Ice Control on European Roads and Bridges" started in April 1999 as a three-year project, with participation from 18 European countries. The project's aims are to review existing international practices, define snow and ice control requirements in different European climatic regions, specify 'Best Practice' in different European climatic regions, develop guidelines for the integration of specified snow and ice control methods into network level road management and maintenance systems, recommend improvements to deriver information and traffic management systems, and recommend future research projects. For widespread dissemination of knowledge, interim resultes of the COST Action are being made available to European an national policy-makers, regional planners, engineers, road and vehicle operators, industry and academia.

Source(s):

Meteorological Applications of the Royal Meteorological Society Vol. 8, TRL Limited (United Kingdom). For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2001

Author:

Burtwell

Keywords:


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