CITY EXPERIMENTS WITH WINTER MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES

Road agencies should constantly challenge their operation to improve winter maintenance performance, and also search for new technologies and procedures. This effort requires significant support from top management including the central city administration. This article describes efforts by the city of Portage, located in southwestern Michigan with over 200 miles of streets, to improve its winter maintenance service delivery by experimenting with liquid deicing agents as well as anti-icing (treating the pavement surface with a liquid deicing agent before a winter storm event).

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  200 South Broad Street
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Authors:
  • Hartman, J
• Publication Date: 2000-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 32-34
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 131
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cities; Deicing; Deicing chemicals; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Operations; Snow and ice control; Streets; Traffic safety; Winter; Winter maintenance
• Geographic Terms: Portage (Michigan)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00796073
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 25 2000 12:00AM