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Resources, Practices and Needs for Weather Forecasting to Facilitate Winter Road Maintenance: Synthesis Report
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2020-12-01
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Edition:Final Report
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Abstract:A transportation agency’s ability to deliver effective winter road maintenance combines three essentials: a professional, knowledgeable staff, including trained snowplow operators; a fleet of high-quality, well-maintained equipment and appropriate supplies; and, perhaps most important and most difficult to consistently acquire, accurate and timely weather information. Sources of weather information for transportation agencies are many and varied. This synthesis project sought to determine the best practices agencies use to acquire accurate and timely weather information to strategize and deploy equipment for winter road maintenance operations. The project also examined the practices used to convey information about forecasts and road weather conditions between agency offices and operators in the field. Two surveys directed to winter road maintenance practitioners at Clear Roads member agencies gathered information from central office staff and field personnel. Results of a literature search supplement survey findings.
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