Decision Support Advancing to New Levels

This article will discuss how the advancements in environmental technology have created new systems that assist agencies with better management of winter roadway maintenance resources. The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) began work developing a maintenance decision support system (MDSS) in the late 1990s. The FHWA defines MDSS as “a decision support tool that integrates relevant road weather forecasts, coded maintenance rules of practice and maintenance resource data to provide winter maintenance managers with recommended road treatment strategies.” Using this definition, any number of systems providing recommended maintenance practices could be labeled as an MDSS. This article will describe how a wide variety of different MDSS’s have been developed with a diversity of ways to make use of single systems. The article describes how the state of Minnesota has implemented its’ own MDSS using the prototype that was developed by FHWA.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/35183091
• Authors:
  • Chambers, Charles
  • Hershey, Benjamin
• Publication Date: 2012-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 46-47
• Serial:
  • ITS International
  • Volume: 18
  • Publisher: Route One Publishing Limited
  • ISSN: 1463-6344
  • Serial URL: http://www.itsinternational.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Decision support systems; Technological innovations; Weather forecasting; Winter maintenance
• Geographic Terms: Minnesota
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I60: Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01446315
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 17 2012 9:23AM