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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Traffic Volume Reductions due to Winter Storm Conditions

Abstract:

Reductions in traffic volumes generated as a result of adverse snow and icy conditions were measured, grouped, and correlated during various weather conditions in four states (Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin)

Source(s):

Transportation Research Record No. 1387, City of Milwaukee Bureau of Traffic Engineering and Marquette University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. For a copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 1992

Author:

Hanbali, Kuemmel

Keywords:


Snow
Ice/Frost
Volume

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