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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Southeast Michigan Snow and Ice Management System: Final Evaluation at end of Winter Season Year 2004

Abstract:

In the early spring of 1999, the Detroit Department of Public Works, the Road Commission of Macomb Country, the Road Commission for Oakland County, and the Wayne County Department of Public Services formed the Southeast Michigan Snow and Ice Management partnership, naming themselves the SEMSIM Partners. The purpose of the partnership was to develop an Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) system that would allow the Partners to fight a snowstorm in a cooperative effort. This report provides an evaluation of the fifth season, the winter of 2003?2004. The evaluation centered on determining if the system (1) provided the tracking and reporting tools that the SEMSIM Partners wanted and (2) had the potential to provide improved efficiency and impacted standard ITS measures in a positive way. The report also summarizes the experiences of other winter maintenance AVL users in Virginia, Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, Maryland and Wisconsin.

Source(s):

Advanced Information Engineering Services, Prepared for the Road Commission for Oakland County

https://trid.trb.org/View/751241

Date: 2004

Author:

Anderson

Keywords:


Winter storm
Institutional issues
Costs
Productivity
Safety
Maintenance vehicle
Communications

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