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Title:

Predicting Weather and Road Conditions: An Integrated Decision Support Tool for Winter Road Maintenance Operations

Abstract:

Winter road maintenance practitioners have expressed a strong interest in obtaining weather and road condition forecasts and treatment recommendations specific to winter road maintenance routes. These user needs led the FHWA Office of Transportation Operations Road Weather Management Program to support the development of a prototype winter road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS). The system integrates weather and road data, weather and road condition model output, chemical concentration algorithms, and anti-icing and deicing rules of practice. This paper describes technical aspects of the MDSS (e.g., technologies, data fusion techniques, architecture) and how the ongoing consideration of stakeholder feedback has benefited the development effort.

Source(s):

82nd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2003

Author:

Mahoney III, Myers

Keywords:


Weather information
Winter maintenance

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