Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Advanced Decision Support for Winter Road Maintenance
Abstract:
The MDSS is a decision support tool that has the ability to provide weather predictions focused toward the road surface. These predictions are then merged with customized rules of practice that have been captured from maintenance managers and coded into a computer algorithm. An initial demonstration of the MDSS prototype was deployed and evaluated during the second half of the winter of 2002-2003 in central Iowa. It is hoped that after the winter 2003-2004 demonstration that the system will be mature enough to be championed by the private sector and to be embraced by the states.
Source(s):
Pennsylvania Borough News, Volume 03, Issue 10; FHWA and Mitretek Systems
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/weather/best_practices/MDSS_Article.pdf
Date: 2003
Author:
Pisano
Keywords:
Forecast/Prediction
Weather information
Winter maintenance
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