SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

This Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) project evaluated the performance and utility of using automatic vehicle location, wireless communication technologies and geographic information systems as applied to snow and ice removal operations. Removal of snow and ice on Wayne County roads is done by snowplow trucks that are given a route and are then unsupervised for the duration of the time they are working on the assigned route. Since there may be over 100 snowplow trucks working separate routes and since each and every storm presents different conditions to the driver of the plow, it is very hard for a dispatching supervisor to have a clear idea of how the road clearing operation is progressing. The end result of this project was to put a map display showing route status in different colors on a terminal in front of the dispatcher.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This ITS-IDEA project was conducted by ERIM International, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Anderson, E
  • Metzger, H
  • Burt, W
• Publication Date: 2000-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: 18 p.
• Serial:
  • ITS-IDEA Program Project Final Report
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle location; Dispatchers; Geographic information systems; Information display systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Maps; Snow and ice control; Technological innovations; Wireless communication systems
• Identifier Terms: Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) (Program)
• Geographic Terms: Wayne County (Michigan)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00802573
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ITS-IDEA Project 56,, Final Report
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-92-X-00026
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 28 2000 12:00AM