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Best Practices for Road Weather ManagementVersion 3.0• Phil Anderle. Contact Mr. Anderle at 970-350-2100 or Phillip.Anderle@DOT.State.Co.Usfor questions about Speed Management on Colorado I-70 and other routes using Patrolcars and snow plow trucks to maintain safe travel speeds and provide continuous flow oftraffic during inclement weather conditions.Reference(s):• AASHTO Technical Technology Implementation Group, TowPlow• Snow King Technologies - Current lists are maintained for Tow Plow reports, pictures,videos, and user lists: • Ohio DOT TowPlow Report, May, 2011• Maine DOT Research Division, Technical Brief(10-4), Second Year Evaluation of theViking-Cives Tow Plow, June 2010.• Missouri Governor’s Award for Productivity and Innovation in State Government 2007,October 2007. "Fewer Fatalities, TowPlow Invention Recognized."• TRB Publication Snow08-003, 2008. "Plowing Wider and Faster on 21st-CenturyHighways by Using 14-ft Front Plows and Trailer Plows Effectively." Pages 261-266Keywords: One pass clearing, 14’ snow plow, trailer plow, tow plow, high speed plowing.26
Best Practices for Road Weather ManagementVersion 3.0Colorado DOT Variable Speed Management SystemColorado State Highway 82, in Snowmass Canyon (between Aspen, CO and GlenwoodSprings, CO) is composed of an elevated southbound roadway that shades the northboundroadway during certain times of the day causing rapidly changing freezing conditions. TheColorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) installed the Variable Speed ManagementSystem which consists of a complete Road Weather Information System (RWIS), using newlydeveloped non-intrusive pavement weather sensor technology. The pavement sensors monitortraction/friction conditions in the area that is shaded, and allow for alerts when conditionswarrant. The system is capable of monitoring wet conditions, wet conditions with traction lossas freezing begins, and snow and ice conditions. The system wirelessly communicates to asingle variable message sign (VMS) and a single variable speed sign (VSS) that are locatednearly a mile in advance of this northbound section of highway in Snowmass Canyon (seeFigures CO-3 and CO-4).Figure CO-3. RWISSnowmass Canyon.Figure CO-4. Alert of wet roads.System Components: The system consists of the following major components:• Variable Message Sign• Road Weather Information System (RWIS), which consists of the following:o Remote Processor Unito Non-Intrusive Surface State Sensoro Non-Intrusive Surface Temperature Sensoro Air Temperature/Relative Humidity Sensoro Precipitation Identifier and Visibility Sensoro Ultrasonic Wind Sensoro Pan-Tilt-Zoom Color Camerao Relay Device Controlo Wireless Device Control27
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