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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Surface Transportation Safety and Operations: The Impacts of Weather Within the Context of Climate Change

Abstract:

This paper examines weather impacts on roadways, operational practices of transportation managers and road users, and the weather parameters with the greatest effects on roadways. Finally, a discussion of how possible climate change may affect these parameters during the next century is presented.

Source(s):

The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation Workshop; FHWA and Mitretek Systems

https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/pisano_Surfact_Trans_Safety_Oper_Impact_Weather_Context_CC.pdf

Date: 2002

Author:

Pisano, Goodwin, Stern

Keywords:


Arterial management
Emergency management
Freeway management
Mobility
Productivity
Safety
Traffic management
Winter maintenance
Climate/Season

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