Development of chloride reduction training.

Details

• Creators:
  Nixon, Wilfrid A. ; Gerard, Anissa
• Corporate Creators:
  Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Illinois. Dept. of Transportation. Bureau of Materials and Physical Research ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Winter maintenance
  • Deicing chemicals
  • Snow and ice control
  • Before and after studies
  • Snowplows
  • Training programs
  • Highway safety
  • Mobility
  • Environmental protection
  • Best practices
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-ICT-15-010 ; ICT-15-010 ; UILU-ENG-2015-2011
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Illinois
• Corporate Publisher:
  Illinois Center for Transportation
• Abstract:
  The purpose of this project was to create a training program that could be used for Illinois Department of ; Transportation (IDOT) personnel who operated snow plows and spread road salt during winter storms. ; The training message was built around the three main goals of winter maintenance: safety, mobility, and ; environmental protection. The concept of winter maintenance operations being a system was introduced ; early in the training and stressed throughout. ; Another goal of the project was to develop a method or tool by which the effectiveness of the training could ; be measured. Achieving that goal requires the ability to compare quantities of salt used by IDOT (or some ; subset of IDOT, such as a maintenance garage) over winters before and after the training is provided. The ; method presented herein uses a storm severity index, summed over the whole winter season. This allows ; for comparison between two winters to be made by use of the index. ; Thus, as shown in the report, for the Moline maintenance district, the winter of 2012–13 can be compared ; with the winter of 2013–14. This comparison shows that the cumulative index for the 2012–13 winter was ; 13.20, while it was 26.88 for the 2013–14 winter. In other words the winter of 2013–14 was significantly ; worse than the winter that preceded it.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  R27-147
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/28832/dot_28832_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.35 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:df2ecafb51f7245544c9cea93a39673eacaaf060aa69dc2d708c6a26f43a20e4