Winter transportation operations are essential and beneficial to the public and the economy of a nation. In the northern U.S. and other cold‐climate areas, transportation operations rely on various winter maintenance activities such as plowing and salting to ensure the safety, mobility and productivity of transportation systems. Transportation agencies have continually been challenged to deliver an effective maintenance program so that a high level of service (LOS) and a degree of safety and mobility can be kept in a fiscally and environmentally responsible manner. More agencies are exploring the impacts of winter road maintenance operations, including voluntary and regulatory controls to reduce their impacts. Motivated by this pressing need, this book aims to consolidate the best practices and recent advances in sustainable winter road operations with the ultimate goal of helping to reduce the costs and environmental footprint associated with winter road operations. This chapter provides a brief discussion on the motivation and need for this book and describes how the different chapters and topics are organized.
Introduction to Sustainable Winter Road Maintenance
2018-04-18
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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