Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Project ColdSpots: A New Way to Improve Winter Road Condition Forecasts
Abstract:
The objective of Project ColdSpots is to improve the present high-resolution weather and road condition models by establishing a novelty database containing detailed local information from problematic road sections in Finland. Presently, a wealth of useful information is available in various databases but not necessarily available to model developers. A test set of some fifty most problematic locations have been selected by studying how many of the accidents have occurred due to freezing, and basing on local knowledge of the road maintenance people. More accurate information of these spots will be implemented in the road condition models. The new system will be verified with pilot studies during the next two winter periods by applying state-of-the-art verification methodologies.
Source(s):
13th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC); Foreca Ltd, Finnish Road Enterprise and Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland)
Date: 2006
Author:
Saarikivi, Sipila, Nurmi, Hippi
Keywords:
Weather information
Pavement condition
Crashes
Safety
Ice/Frost
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