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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Snow & Ice Control: Guidelines for Materials and Methods

Abstract:

This report provides guidelines for selecting roadway snow and ice control strategies and tactics for a wide range of winter maintenance operating conditions. These guidelines apply to highways, roads, streets, and other paved surfaces that carry motor vehicles?under state or local jurisdictions. The guidelines will assist winter maintenance personnel in selecting the appropriate level-of-service (LOS)-driven roadway snow and ice control operations and will help effectively manage snow and ice control resources. The report is a useful resource for state and local highway agency personnel and others involved in snow and ice control.

Source(s):

Midwest Research Institute, AFM Engineering Services and Weather Solutions Group, Prepared for National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), NCHRP Report 526

http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_526.pdf

Date: 2004

Author:

Blackburn, et al

Keywords:


Ice/Frost
Winter maintenance
Anti-icing/deicing chemicals

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