New York state's Dept. of Transportation is bringing science to snowdrifts. The agency last month presented "SnowMan," software for optimizing snow fences on existing roads and for designing highways to reduce drifts, at a conference of the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board. Stuart Chen, a professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, who designed the software with Michael Lamanna, a former graduate student, says it can reduce white-outs and pavement icing and the "extra costs" of snow plowing and deicing salts. The state has been working on the project intermittently with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N.Y., and UB for more than a decade. Development was aided by Darrell Kaminski, regional design engineer for NYSDOT's western region, and snow and wind engineering consultant Ronald Tabler, founder of Tabler and Associates, Niwot, Colo. Tabler has collected snowdrift field data since 1960.
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机译：纽约州交通运输部正在将科学推向雪堆。该机构上个月在美国国家科学院交通研究委员会的会议上推出了“ SnowMan”软件，该软件可优化现有道路上的雪栅栏和设计高速公路以减少漂移。纽约州立大学布法罗分校的土木，结构和环境工程教授Stuart Chen与前研究生Michael Lamanna一起设计了该软件，他说它可以减少白化和路面结冰，除雪和除冰盐的“额外费用”。该州与布鲁克海文国家实验室（Brookhaven National Laboratory），纽约州阿普顿（Upton）和UB（UB）间歇性地合作开展该项目已有十多年了。 NYSDOT西部地区的区域设计工程师Darrell Kaminski以及科罗拉多州尼沃特市Tabler and Associates创始人雪和风工程顾问Ronald Tabler协助了开发工作。Tabler自1960年以来一直收集雪场数据。
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