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Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) [2006]
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2006-01-01
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Abstract:The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has long recognized the challenges faced by maintenance managers. With the creation of the Road Weather Management Program in the late 1990s, FHWA began to improve the kind of information that was available for winter maintenance. At that time, weather forecasts were plentiful, and a few companies issued road-specific forecasts; however, there was no link between the available weather information and the decisions made by maintenance managers about winter road treatments, such as when it is best to treat which roads, and whether salting, plowing, or a combination of approaches is most effective. The recognition of this missing link led to the genesis of the winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS). The MDSS project was a collaboration between a pool of maintenance practitioners from several State departments of transportation (DOT) and five national laboratories.
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