SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE ICE AND SNOW CONTROL MANAGEMENT ON ROAD, BRIDGE, AND RUNWAY SURFACES (ABRIDGMENT)

An overview of the products and services offered by a full-service commercial weather support company is provided. Solutions are presented to make winter travel safer and to help reduce the billions of dollars spent annually on ice and snow control in North America. The solutions offered come from unique meteorological (pavement- and atmospheric-sensing) instrumentation, data processing units, tailored microcomputer software, a numerical forecasting model that projects pavement and weather conditions, and a specialized weather-forecasting center established to support the transportation industry. Methods to improve the interface between the provider of specialized weather equipment and unique pavement forecasts and the customer who relies on real-time pavement weather information and forecasts to reduce ice and snow control budgets are described.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1276, Maintenance Management 1990: Proceedings of a Workshop, Jackson, Mississippi, July 25-27, 1990. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
• Authors:
  • Kelley, Joe R
• Conference:
  • Maintenance Management Workshop, 6th, 1990, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
• Publication Date: 1990

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 48-51
• Monograph Title: Maintenance management 1990: Proceedings of a Workshop July 25-27, 1990, Jackson, Mississippi
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1276
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Improvements; Information processing; Maintenance management; Meteorological instruments; Microcomputers; Snow and ice control; Software; Weather forecasting
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00607680
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309050669
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 30 1991 12:00AM