00983279

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https://doi.org/10.3141/1877-15

http://scholar.google.com...+Ran&publication_year=2004

Many state and local governments in the United States are seeking improved methods of providing winter highway maintenance to meet the increasing demands of today's drivers. Winter maintenance activity can improve road conditions for travel in terms of mobility, safety, and economic benefit. The benefits and costs of winter maintenance make it very important that these activities be completed effectively and efficiently. To improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of winter maintenance activities, the performance of the approach taken must be measured. Winter maintenance performance measures were developed on the basis of speed data from automatic traffic recorders (ATRs) and winter storm report data. An attempt was made to combine the ATR speed data and the storm report data to determine both the average vehicle speed reduction during a snow event relative to normal vehicle speeds at a location and the time needed from the minimum value to regain normal or average vehicle speeds. A determination was made related to whether this speed-recovery duration might be an appropriate performance measure for winter maintenance.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1877, Maintenance Management and Services.

00983264

English

p. 137-143

2004

Transportation Research Record

0309094739

Figures (5) ; References (11) ; Tables (5)

Measurement; Performance; Pilot studies; Snow; Speed data; Traffic speed; Winter maintenance

Automatic traffic recorders; Speed recovery duration; Storm report data

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance

TRIS, TRB

Dec 10 2004 12:00AM

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• EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED WORK ZONE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• EVALUATION OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY CAPACITY FOR SHORT-TERM WORK ZONE LANE CLOSURES
• HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE OUTSOURCING EXPERIENCE: SYNOPSIS OF WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S REVIEW
• IMPLEMENTING HIGHWAY PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE: COMPARING CHALLENGES, PROCESSES, AND SOLUTIONS IN THREE STATES
• INJURY SEVERITY AND TOTAL HARM IN TRUCK-INVOLVED WORK ZONE CRASHES
• MODEL TO ANALYZE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HIGHWAY REST AREA PERFORMANCE
• OPTIMAL DYNAMIC SPEED-LIMIT CONTROL FOR HIGHWAY WORK ZONE OPERATIONS
• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PAVEMENT MARKINGS UNDER DRY, WET, AND RAINY CONDITIONS IN THE FIELD
• PREDICTION OF BRINE APPLICATION FOR PRETREATMENT AND ANTI-ICING
• SAFETY IMPLICATIONS OF FREEWAY WORK ZONE LANE CLOSURES
• TRAFFIC-SIGNAL GROUP RELAMPING MODEL
• WORK ZONE OPTIMIZATION FOR TWO-LANE HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE PROJECTS