Systematic Approach for Locating Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Stations in Canada (Poster)

North American transportation agencies expend more than $3.3 billion dollars annually on various winter road maintenance (WRM) activities to keep roads safe and mobile. WRM uses large amount of road salt which has become a public concern due to their detrimental effects on environment, infrastructure, and vehicles. Real-time information from road weather information system (RWIS) can help improve the effectiveness of WRM and reduce the salt usage. RWIS stations are costly to install and operate, and can only be installed at a limited number of locations. Therefore RWIS stations then must be placed strategically to provide most informative inputs. The primary objective of this project is to construct a systematic approach for determining the candidate RWIS station locations at the regional level. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201310RT334E.

• Record URL:
  http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2013/poster1/kwon.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • KWON, TJ
  • PERCHANOK, MS
  • McClintock, H
• Conference:
  • 2013 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION: BETTER - FASTER - SAFER
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1 p.
• Monograph Title: 2013 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada - Transportation: Better - Faster - Safer

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automation; Conferences; Continuous structures; Highways; Leasing; Planning; Surveillance; Weather; Winter maintenance
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 9006: Continuous; 2755: Highway; 228: Location; 143: Planning; 9101: Surveillance; 2545: Weather; 2593: Winter maintenance
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I15: Environment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01518060
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Mar 11 2014 11:00AM