Center for Weather Impacts on Mobility and Safety
Research Projects
CWIMS/InTrans
maintenance
- February 2008, Winter Weather Severity Index Enhancements
- November 2006, An Integrated Systems Approach to the Development of Winter Maintenance / Management Systems
- August 2006, Snow and Ice Operations Cost Analysis
- August 2003, Deploying the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) in Iowa
- June 2003, Highway Maintenance Concept Vehicle: A Business Case for Winter Maintenance Technology Applications
- October 2002, Synthesis of Best Practices for Increasing Protection and Visibility of Highway Maintenance Vehicles and Workers (TR-475)
- May 2002, Highway Maintenance Concept Vehicle, Phase IV
- December 2001, Automated Bridge De-icing Pilot Project
- February 2001, Highway Maintenance Concept Vehicle, Phase III
- June 1998, Highway Maintenance Concept Vehicle, Phase I
pavement
safety
weather data
Iowa State University Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
- 2004, Bridge Frost Occurrence and Prediction, Spokane, WA
- 2003, Applications of a Roadway Frost Prediction System in Iowa, 19th
International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems
(IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
Long Beach
- 2003, Evaluation of a Frost Accumulation Model, Meteor. Appl.
10, 337-343
- 2002, Conceptual and Scaling Evaluation of Vehicle Traffic Thermal Effect
on Road Snow/ice, J. Appl. Meteor., 41, 1225-1240
- The Iowa Environmental Mesonet Combining Observing Systems into a Single
Network, Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, Amer. Meteor.
Soc., Orlando, FL
- 2001, A Model for Forecasting Frost Accumulation on Bridges that Uses
Roadway Weather Information System (RWIS) Data, 17th International Conference
on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS), Amer. Meteorol.
Soc., Albuquerque, NM
- 2001, A Winter Weather Index to Estimate Maintenance Costs in the Midwest,
17th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing
Systems (IIPS), Amer. Meteorol. Soc., Albuquerque, NM
Technology Transfer
Iowa State University's CP Tech Center has developed and is currently developing
several publications about PCC construction which include information about
weather-related complications.
- Concrete Paving Notes (available from the American
Concrete Paving Association)
- Materials No. 1: Formation and Characteristics of Concrete Mixtures
for Pavements: The Basics (product code: SP486P)
- Concrete
paving workforce references
- No. 1. Concrete Materials Storage, Mixing, and Delivery
- No. 2. Concrete Paving Site Preparation and Construction
- No. 3. Concrete Paving Joint Sawing, Cleaning, and Sealing
Resources and Laboratories
Related Programs
Aurora
InTrans administers the Aurora program,
an international pooled-fund partnership for research in road weather information
systems. See "Go Light with the Salt, Please: Developing Information
Systems for Winter Roadway Safety" in the
January–February 2004 edition of TR News (pdf) for an
article about Aurora.
Iowa Environmental Mesonet
The Iowa Environmental Mesonet
(IEM) was established and maintained as a partnership between Iowa State
University, the Iowa Department of Transportation, the National Weather
Service, and KCCI, the CBS affiliate television station in Des Moines, Iowa.
(The IEM won a national award for being a public-private-university partnership.)
The IEM displays a variety of raw and derived products using RWIS
data. The Iowa DOT has played a central role in the RWIS data collection.
Weather Issues in Transportation
Led by the Iowa DOT, a diverse group of researchers is developing a regional,
multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a weather-related research and
technology transfer program. Read more about it on the Weather
Issues in Transportation website.
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