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Title:

The Federal Highway Administration's Maintenance Decision Support System Project: Summary Results and Recommendations

Abstract:

The FHWA Road Weather Management program began a project in fiscal year 1999 to develop a prototype winter road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS). The MDSS capabilities are based on feedback received by the FHWA in 2001 from maintenance managers at a number of State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) as part of an initiative to capture surface transportation weather decision support requirements. After the 2001 user needs assessment was completed, the MDSS program was extended to develop and demonstrate a functional prototype MDSS. A field demonstration of the prototype MDSS occurred in Iowa between February and April 2003. A second field demonstration was conducted during the winter of 2004. This paper describes the status of the MDSS project, results and lessons learned from the field demonstrations, and future development efforts.

Source(s):

84th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting and Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Spring 2005; National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Mitretek Systems, CRREL, NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, FHWA and Iowa DOT

http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/resources/publications/fhwa/trb2005_mdss_paper.pdf

Date: 2004

Author:

Mahoney, Pisano, et al

Keywords:


Forecast/Prediction
Pavement condition
Snow
Ice/Frost
Weather information
Winter maintenance

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