WEATHER: A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR SURFACE TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS
Even though highway construction is a highly structured, well-planned process, highways exist in a natural setting still subject to the environmental impacts of the weather. The significance of weather is that it crosscuts almost every goal, use, and operation of highways, and this is why it is at risk of becoming lost; it has no single organizational focal point within the highway community. This article looks at the weather as an important dynamic factor affecting a number of aspects of highway transportation including maintenance, traffic flow, and disaster response, among others. Areas and topics covered include weather and highways, weather and operations, and the weather research agenda as it affects surface transportation.
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Corporate Authors:
Federal Highway Administration
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Authors:
- Nelson, G G
- Persaud, R
- Publication Date: 2002-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Photos; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 24-29
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Serial:
- Public Roads
- Volume: 65
- Issue Number: 5
- Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
- ISSN: 0033-3735
- Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
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Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Environmental impacts; Ground transportation; Highway maintenance; Highway operations; Highway planning; Highway transportation; Weather conditions; Weather forecasting
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00925055
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: May 27 2002 12:00AM