Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Winter Maintenance Technology and Practices: Learning from Abroad
Abstract:
An NCHRP digest of the findings and recommendations of an International Winter Maintenance Scanning Tour conducted under the auspices of FHWA's International Programs and NCHRP Project 20-36, Highway Research and Technology--International Information Sharing. The scanning team travelled to Japan and Europe in March 1994 and discovered important differences in snow removal equipment, anti-icing/deicing materials and methods, weather monitoring, winter hazard mitigation, and road user information services. Also the team discovered important difference in the public perception and responsibility for participation in snow removal operations, the methods employed for financing winter maintenance operations, and the cooperation between public agencies and private enterprise in research and development efforts.
Source(s):
NCHRP Research Results Digest, Number 204
http://international.fhwa.dot.gov/Pdfs/RsrchrResultsDigest.pdf
Date: 1995
Author:
Hanna
Keywords:
Maintenance vehicle
Blowing/Drifting snow
Snow
Ice/Frost
Avalanche
Institutional issues
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