Strategies for Winter Highway Maintenance

摘要

The harsh effects of winter weather can take quite a toll on transportationinfrastructure and its users. It is therefore important for winter maintenance practices to be as efficient and cost-effective as possible. This report examines the current state of practice in winter maintenance, review current and relevant literature, and suggests strategies to improve current winter maintenance practices. The information gathered in the course of this study has been synthesized into a proposed strategy for winter maintenance that consists of a series of suggestions that could substantially improve winter maintenance practices. A major goal of this study was to determine which new technologies have potential to be useful and effective in winter highway maintenance, and to indicate strategies for the development, incorporation and deployment of new technologies into current methods of winter maintenance.