What's New

Medium-Scale Smart Bridge

• Medium-Scale Smart Bridge Photographs:  Part 1

• Medium-Scale Smart Bridge Photographs:  Part 2

• Testing of a Medium-Scale Bridge Deck Heating System:  Power-Point Presentation, August 2002

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Smart Bridge Controls

• Smart Bridge Integrated Control Strategies:  Part 1

• Smart Bridge Integrated Control Strategies:  Part 2

• Smart Bridge Controls:  Part 1

• Smart Bridge Controls:  Part 2

• Smart Bridge Controls Literature

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RWIS & Weather Forecasting

• Weather Information for Surface Transportation: National Needs Assessment Report, December 2002

• An Introduction to Standards for Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS): Siting Standards, Calibration Standards, Communications Standards, July 2002

• Weather: Making it a National Priority in Surface Transportation -- Papers from the Eleventh Annual ITS America 2001 Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, June 4-7, 2001

• Proceedings of the OFCM Symposium on Weather Information for Surface Transportation, December 2000

• Road Weather Management: Better Information and Tools Improve Operations, Save Lives (FHWA-OP-01-012)

• FORETELL Field Operational Test

• OKlahoma's First-response Information Resource System using Telecommunications(OK-FIRST)Project

• The Safe Passage Project

• Road Weather Management Program

• The Integration of Real-Time and Forecast Weather Data into the Control Decision System of a Geothermally-Heated Bridge Deck, 18th IIPS for Meteorology ..., Orlando, Florida, January 13-17, 2002

• Use of Oklahoma Mesonet and NWS Data in the Development of Control Strategies for Winter-Time Bridge Heating, Proceedings of the 17th Conference on IIPS for Meteorology ..., Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 14-19, 2001

• Surface Transportation Weather Decision Support Requirements

• ITS: Weather Applications

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Heated Bridge Technology Literature

• Bridge Deck Deicing Using Geothermal Heat Pumps, Proceedings of the 4th International Heat Pumps in Cold Climated Conference, Aylmer, Quebec. August 17-18, 2000

• A modeling Approach to Design of a Ground Source Heat, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Snow Removal and Ice Control Technology. Raonoke, VA. September 5-8, 2000

• Heated Bridge Technology

• Heated Bridge Deck Technology Projects

• Smart Bridge Literature Review

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Fixed Automated Anti-icing/De-icing Spraying Systems

• Evaluation of Automated Bridge Deck Anti-icing System in Kentucky

• Fixed Automated Spray Technology, FAST

• Washington State Department of Transportation Automated Anti-icing

• Minnesota Department of Transportation De-icing/Anti-icing

• German Fixed Automated Spraying Systems -- Efficacy and Economic Efficiency of Thawing Agents Spray Systems: Final Report, December 1993

• German Fixed Automated Spraying Systems -- Information on the Planning, Construction and Operation of Chemical Thawing Agent Spraying Installations, September 1994

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Bridge Deck Corrosion Assessment

• Effect of Salt on Bridge Deck Life -- PowerPoint Presentation

• Corrosion Assessment -- PowerPoint Presentation

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Economic Analysis of Bridge Winter Maintenance Technologies

• A Benefit/Cost Analysis of Intelligent Transportation System Applications for Winter Maintenance

• Economic Analysis of Bridge Winter Maintenance Technologies -- PowerPoint Presentation

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Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Analysis of Weather Impacts on Traffic Flow in Metropolitan Washington DC

• An Online Version of the ITS/Operations Resource Guide

• Intelligent Transportation Systems Benefits and Costs - 2003 Update

• ATIS Results from ITS 2002 Deployment Tracking Surveys

• Metropolitan ITS Integration: A Cross-Cutting Study

• Best Practices of Rural and Statewide ITS Strategic Planning

• Washington State DOT's "rWeather" Web Site

• FORETELL Field Operational Test

• ITS Executive Summaries

• ITS Vision Statement

• ITS Benefits

• Introduction to ITS/CVO

• ITS Architecture Version 3

• ITS Architecture Market Packages

• ITS Standards List

• Rural ITS User Needs

• Statewide ITS Architecture Development: Case Study

• The Context for ITS Architecture

• ITS: Weather Applications

• ITS Electronic Document Library On-Line Catalog

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Winter Maintenance

• Feasibility of Using Friction Indicators to Improve Winter Maintenance Operations and Mobility

• Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) Project -- Prototype Development Plan

• Idaho Storm Warning System Operational Test

• Snow and Ice Cooperative Program (SICOP)

• Report on the 1998 Scanning Review of European Winter Service Technology

• Anti-Icing Techniques and RWIS: 1999-2000 Technology and Usage Survey Results

• The New Generation of Snow and Ice Control: Anti-Icing and RWIS

• DOT Winter Maintenance Technologies and Processes

• Iowa's Cooperative Snow Fence Program

• Manual of Practice for an Effective Anti-icing Program: A guide for Winter Maintenance Personnel

• TRB Special Report 235:  Highway Deicing - Comparing Salt and Calcium Magnesium Acetate

• National Transportation Library

Traffic Management

• Weather-Responsive Traffic Management: Concept of Operations

• Modifying Signal Timing During Inclement Weather

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