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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Improved Visibility for Snowplowing Operations

Abstract:

This digest describes several means, identified in NCHRP Project 6-12, that could improve visibility for snowplowing operations. The project included a review of existing and proposed approaches for improving visibility for snowplowing operations, the identification and development of potential means for improving these operations, and the conduct of limited field tests to evaluate the potential benefits of these means.

Source(s):

Transportation Research Board, NCHRP Research Results Digest No. 250

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rrd_250.pdf

Date: 2000

Author:

Hanna

Keywords:


Traveler information
Winter storm
Visibility

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