COLD WEATHER TRANSIT TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM. VOLUME 4: ADVANCED COUNTERMEASURES FOR COMBATTING ICE AND SNOW PROBLEMS

This report is one volume of a nine-volume report associated with the Cold Weather Transit Technology (CWTT) program of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. The objective of the program is to improve existing transportation operations during severe cold ice and snow environments and to develop new and more effective methods for assuring the dependable operation of the systems in severe winter conditions. The findings of this program are intended to assist administrators, designers, planners, operators, suppliers, and others involved in the design, implementation, and operation of mass transit systems which operate in cold weather environments. This volume addresses the fundamental properties of ice adhesion to a substrate, the mechanical properties which govern its removal, and the fundamentals of radio-frequency and deicing of power and signal rails.

• Corporate Authors:

  Notre Dame University

  College of Engineering
  Notre Dame, Indiana,   United States  46556

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Lee, LHN
  • Huang, N C
  • Hupp, J
  • Lin, K S
  • Gajda, W J
  • Ajmera, P K
  • Kwor, R
• Publication Date: 1981-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 133 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated guideway transit; Cold weather; Deicing; Ice; Operations; Thaw; Third rail
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00373803
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-IN-06-0009-82-4Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 30 1983 12:00AM