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Title:

Development of Road Icing Prediction System

Abstract:

A road icing prediction system is under development to predict several hours in advance the presence or absence of an icy road by making use of the road surface temperature measured by the optical fiber sensors laid underneath the road and the weather forecast data of that area. In order to upgrade the icing prediction accuracy, the method of utilizing the weather forecast data has been improved and integrated into a prototype system. The system has been further used in carrying out a field experiment on an actual road, with the predicted results closely corresponding with the actual icing status, proving the validity of the system.

Source(s):

4th World Congress on ITS, Hitachi Cable, Kanto Districts Construction Bureau and Public Works Research Institute (Japan). For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 1997

Author:

Miyata, et al

Keywords:


Forecast/Prediction
Ice/Frost

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