Managing Information for Winter Road Maintenance

Probabilistic Weather Forecasting for Winter Road Maintenance

Road maintenance is one of the main problems Departments of Transportation face during winter time. Anti-icing, i.e. applying chemicals to the road to prevent ice formation, is often used to keep the roads free of ice. Given the preventive nature of anti-icing, accurate predictions of road ice are needed. Currently, anti-icing decisions are usually based on deterministic weather forecasts. Howe...

Optimizing winter road maintenance operations under real-time information

0377-2217/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2008.03.001 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 519 888 4567x339 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. Fu), vkim@ This paper introduces a real-time optimization model that can be used by maintenance managers to develop and evaluate alternative resources allocation plans for winter road maintenance operations. The model takes int...

Managing Road Maintenance Using Geographic Information System Application

The development and economic growth of a nation is closely related to its available transportation system. Good and efficient road transport infrastructure facilities will promote industrial and socio-economic development. To provide safety and comfort to road users, a comprehensive road maintenance schedule must be formulated and adopted to ensure those roads are in good condition at all times...

Automated Winter Road Maintenance Using Road Surface Condition Measurements

Real-time measurement of tire-road friction coefficient is extremely valuable for winter road maintenance operations and can be used to optimize the kind and quantity of the deicing and anti-icing chemicals applied to the roadway. In this project, a wheel based tire-road friction coefficient measurement system is first developed for snowplows. Unlike a traditional Norse meter, this system is ba...

M EASUREMENTS FOR WINTER ROAD MAINTENANCE Mats Riehm November 2012