Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Winter Storm Event Volume Impact Analysis using Multiple Source Archived Monitoring Data
Abstract:
Paper discusses how data from several information management systems in Iowa were used to analyze the volume impacts of winter storms. Analysis indicated that winter storms decrease traffic volumes by 29% on average (range from 16% to 47%). Analysis revealed relationship between percent volume reduction and total snowfall, minimum average wind speed and the square of maximum wind gust speed.
Source(s):
79th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, Iowa State University and Iowa DOT. For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.
Date: 2000
Author:
Knapp, Smithson
Keywords:
Volume
Snow
Wind
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