Development of a toolkit for cost-benefit analysis of specific winter maintenance practices, equipment and operations.

Details

• Creators:
  Veneziano, David A. ; Fay, Laura ; Ye, Zhirui ; Williams, Dan ; Shi, Xianming ; Ballard, Lisa
• Corporate Creators:
  Current Transportation Solutions ; Western Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Clear Roads Pooled Fund
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Winter maintenance
  • Snow and ice control
  • Benefit cost analysis Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Winter Maintenance
  • Winter Maintenance Practices
  • Winter Maintenance Equipment
  • Winter Maintenance Operations
  • Benefit Cost Toolkit
• Publication/ Report Number:
  WisDOT 0092-09-08;Clear Roads 08-02
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Wisconsin
• Corporate Publisher:
  Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Clear Roads Pooled Fund
• 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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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  406476
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18484/dot_18484_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.80 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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