Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Highway Deicing: Comparing Salt and Calcium Magnesium Acetate (Special Report 235)
Abstract:
Deicing chemicals are important tools for highway snow and ice control. The National Research Council conducted a study to examine the full economic costs of using salt and CMA for highway deicing. The report defines the true cost of salt; estimates of monetary costs involved in mitigating environmental damage from road salt; summaries of the field performance, infrastructure and environmental impacts, production technologies and costs of CMA.
Source(s):
Transportation Research Board, Committee on the Comparative Costs of Rock Salt and Calcium Magnesium Acetate (CMA) for Highway Deicing
Date: 1991
Author:
Iowa State University
Keywords:
Anti-icing/deicing
Anti-icing/deicing chemicals
Safety
Productivity
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