Improved Safety for Winter Travel along Minimally Improved Routes

Weather conditions can severely restrict the transportation mobility and accessibility of rural Alaskan villages. Winter storms and blowing snow also pose several transportation safety issues and forces many residents to remain isolated in their communities during the winter months. A few residents per village may have the experience/wherewithal (colloquially referred to as “travelers”) to venture out on the road and winter route systems to engage in socially critical interactions with other communities/villages. This travel is facilitated by the existence of route markers along predefined and preferred overland routes. This project has three goals (1) Develop a reliable, low maintenance foundation for the route markers developed by Kawerak. (2) Install and test a Remote Weather Information System (RWIS) to provide weather information along the route (3) Count the number of users of the route system

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Safety Equity in Transportation

  University of Alaska Fairbanks
  Fairbanks, AK  United States  99775
• Principal Investigators:

  Connor, Billy

• Start Date: 20200801
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Foundations; Highway safety; Roadway guidance markers; Routes; Rural areas; Travelers; Weather conditions; Weather forecasting; Weather routing; Winter
• Geographic Terms: Alaska
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01748583
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Safety Equity in Transportation
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 25 2020 4:45PM