This report presents the design and development of a bus wheel housing deicer system and its evaluation during the winters of 1981-1982 and 1982-1983. This task was conducted in 3 phases: (1) a survey was conducted of bus systems to quantify the wheel housing icing problems and to identify a particular bus model and property location for the performance of the deicer evaluation; (2) an analysis was made of various devices to determine the most applicable wheel housing deicing method for evaluation; and (3) operational evaluation involved designing, fabricating, and installing a deicer system in the steered wheel housing areas of an existing bus and comparing its operation with an unmodified bus operating in same winter environment.
Cold Weather Transit Technology Program. Volume 8. Bus Wheel Housing Deicing Project
1983
52 pages
Report
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Englisch