Best Practices in Winter Road Maintenance (0.6 CEUs) 2012

Best Practices in Winter Road Maintenance is a course dedicated to best practices in the selection of methods and materials for winter road maintenance, including:

• Advantages and limitations of different materials such as sand, salt, sand/salt mixtures and others
• Winter road management and its impacts on the safety and mobility of road users
• New technologies such as Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS)
• Selection of the best winter road maintenance based on factors such as weather information and forecasting and various winter road Level-Of-Service
• The latest findings in this area from highway agencies such as FHWA in the USA and TAC in Canada

Who should Attend

Supervisors, managers and operators who are involved in winter road maintenance..