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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow.

This article concentrates on a new tool called the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) that offers a full suite of tools to aid maintenance managers in the U.S., including pavement chemical concentration forecasts, optimized treatment times and strategies, roadway snow depth forecasts, surfac...

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Published in:American City & County Vol. 120; no. 10; pp. 46 - 50
Main Author: Swartz, Nikki
Format: Article
Published: Penton Media, Inc. Sep2005
Subjects:
United States
Meteorological instruments
Weather forecasting
Precipitation forecasting
Snow
Weather
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article concentrates on a new tool called the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) that offers a full suite of tools to aid maintenance managers in the U.S., including pavement chemical concentration forecasts, optimized treatment times and strategies, roadway snow depth forecasts, surface frost prediction, material application amounts, pavement surface temperature forecasts, crew scheduling, road mobility forecasts and snow drift prediction. MDSS technologies include Decision Support Logic, Chemical Concentration, GIS display, Snowdrift Algorithm, video image processing, Weather Prediction System, Ensemble Modeling and Sensing. INSET: Not another forecast.