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Development of a toolkit for cost-benefit analysis of specific winter maintenance practices, equipment and operations.
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2010-11-01
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Abstract:The operators and maintainers of highway networks are facing increasing demands and
customer expectations regarding mobility and transportation safety during inclement weather,
while confronting budget and staffing constraints and environmental challenges related to
chemical and material usage. It is desirable to use the most recent advances and best
practices to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of winter operations, optimize material
usage, and reduce annual spending, corrosion and environmental impacts. Determining the
benefits and costs of various winter maintenance practices, equipment and operations is a
difficult and time consuming proposal for winter maintenance managers. This project developed
a toolkit which would facilitate such a benefit-cost analysis to address this need. The toolkit
items included anti-icing, deicing, carbide blades, front plows, underbody plows, zero velocity
spreaders, Maintenance Decision Support Systems, Automatic Vehicle Location and
Geographic Positioning Systems, Road Weather Information Systems, and mobile pavement or
air/pavement temperature sensors. The developed toolkit is a website which receives
parameter inputs from a user and generates a benefit-cost ratio for the item of interest.
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