Developing and Refining Sustainability Tools for Winter Maintenance Operations

Sustainability in transportation requires that the three "pillars" of societal needs, environmental protection and economic costs and benefits, should be balanced. Yet, the tools currently available deal only peripherally with transportation operations and maintenance, and with winter maintenance in particular. It is planned to further develop a checklist tool that exists in preliminary form by working with winter maintenance professionals from states, cities and counties to determine how best to refine the existing tool in a variety of areas. The deliverables of this project will be a refined winter maintenance sustainability checklist tool, and the final report detailing the findings of the study.

• Record URL:
  http://matc.unl.edu/research/research_projects.php?researchID=422

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $45591.00
• Contract Numbers:

  DTRT12-G-UTC07

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Iowa, Iowa City

  102 Church Street
  Iowa City, IA  United States  52242
• Principal Investigators:

  Nixon, Wilfrid

• Start Date: 20120701
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20131231
• Source Data: RiP Project 32786

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Environmental protection; Maintenance practices; Sustainable development; Winter maintenance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Checklists
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01483140
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Mid-America Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12-G-UTC07
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 5 2013 1:01AM