Clear Roads Winter Highway Operations Phase III Pooled Fund
This new Clear Roads project will maintain its mission to advance winter highway operations nationally by undertaking practical, practice-ready research related to materials, equipment, and methods. State departments of transportation are aggressively pursuing new technologies, practices, tools, and programs to improve winter highway operations and safety while maintaining fiscal responsibility. Developing priority areas of interest in FFYs 2022-2026 include advanced anti-icing/deicing methods, new automated and intelligent technologies, improved decision-making tools, and national database networks, as well as others that cannot yet be anticipated over the next half decade. The Clear Roads pooled fund provides the critical funding and structure needed to evaluate these new tools and practices in both lab and field settings, to develop industry standards and performance measures, to conduct cost-benefit analyses, and to develop and evaluate new designs and practices that further improve winter highway safety and minimize environmental impacts. This project responds to research and technology transfer needs not currently met by other pooled fund projects. Existing partners make every effort to coordinate with other agencies to avoid duplication of efforts and to encourage implementation of results. This new phase of Clear Roads will address both operational and management research needs, investigating the most effective tools and practices for clearing snow and ice and for managing program resources, budgets, and performance measures. It will continue to promote an even stronger emphasis on the use of research results in the field. The project will provide expanded support for implementation and technology transfer through the development of user manuals, training modules, peer exchanges, and quick turnaround syntheses of the most effective state practices from around the country. This new phase will also include expanded collaboration with other research organizations focused on winter maintenance (such as the Aurora Pooled Fund, AASHTO, TRB, and APWA) to further leverage the research funding investment. Objectives of the new phase of the Clear Roads pooled fund project will include: (1) Conduct structured field testing and evaluation across a range of winter conditions and different highway maintenance organizational structures to assess the practical effectiveness, ease of use, optimum application rates, barriers to use, durability, safety, environmental impact, and cost-effectiveness of innovative materials, equipment, and methods for improved winter highway maintenance. (2) Conduct research that explores the use of innovative materials, equipment, and processes that will promote environmentally sustainable winter maintenance operations. (3) Conduct cost-benefit analyses to ensure that new technologies, materials, or methods contribute to operational efficiency. (4) Investigate state agency uses of performance measures for winter operations and develop management tools that support effective analysis and reporting of the measures. (5) Establish industry standards and develop performance measures for evaluating and utilizing new materials and technologies. (6) Support technology transfer by developing and disseminating practical field guides and training curriculum and reference materials to promote the results of research projects. (7) Support the exchange of information and ideas among state agencies via peer exchanges, ad hoc internal surveys, and collaborative research efforts that provide opportunities for winter maintenance specialists to share experiences related to winter maintenance. (8) Conduct national surveys to compile and document agency practices on the latest operational issues (for example salt shortages, level of service requirements, or other "hot button" issues). (9) Conduct quick turnaround, low-cost synthesis projects to investigate the latest research and practices on pressing winter maintenance topics. (10) Coordinate with the Aurora Pooled Fund (http://www.aurora-program.org/) to enhance the impact, and avoid duplication, of winter road weather research. (11) Promote public education and outreach related to winter maintenance and winter driving safety.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Programmed
- Funding: $4125000.00
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Contract Numbers:
TPF-5(479)
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Sponsor Organizations:
Wyoming Department of Transportation
5300 Bishop Blvd.
Cheyenne, WY United States 82009-3340Maine Department of Transportation
16 Statehouse Station
Augusta, ME United States 04333Delaware Department of Transportation
800 S Bay Road
P.O. Box 778
Dover, DE United States 19903Massachusetts Department of Transportation
10 Park Plaza
Boston, MA United States 02116Vermont Agency of Transportation
1 National Life Drive
Drawer 33
Montpelier, VT United States 5633New Hampshire Department of Transportation
John O. Morton Building
P.O. Box 483
Concord, NH United States 03302-0483Arizona Department of Transportation
206 South 17th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ United States 85007South Dakota Department of Transportation
700 East Broadway Avenue
Pierre, SD United States 57501Nevada Department of Transportation
1263 South Stewart Street
Carson City, NV United States 89712Ohio Department of Transportation
Research Program
1980 West Broad Street
Columbus, OH United States 43223Wisconsin Department of Transportation
PO Box 7910
4802 Sheboygan Avenue, Room 104
Madison, WI United States 53707-7910Michigan Department of Transportation
Van Wagoner Building
425 W. Ottawa Street
Lansing, MI United States 48909Connecticut Department of Transportation
2800 Berlin Turnpike
P. O. Box 317546
Newington, CT United States 06131-7546North Dakota Department of Transportation
608 East Boulevard Avenue
Bismarck, ND United States 58505-0700Missouri Department of Transportation
1617 Missouri Blvd.
P.O. Box 270
Jefferson City, MO United States 65102New York State Department of Transportation
50 Wolf Road
Albany, NY United States 12232Texas Department of Transportation
125 E. 11th Street
Austin, TX United States 78701-2483Illinois Department of Transportation
2300 S. Dirksen Parkway
Springfield, IL United States 62764Kansas Department of Transportation
Eisenhower State Office Building
700 SW Harrison Street
Topeka, KS United States 66603-3754Montana Department of Transportation
2701 Prospect Avenue
P.O. Box 201001
Helena, MT United States 59620-1001Rhode Island Department of Transportation
Two Capitol Hill
Providence, RI United States 02903-1124Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration
707 N. Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD United States 21202Colorado Department of Transportation
2829 W. Howard Place
Denver, CO United States 80204Oregon Department of Transportation
355 Capitol St. NE
Salem, OR United States 97301-3871Iowa Department of Transportation
800 Lincoln Way
Ames, IA United States 50010Virginia Department of Transportation
1408 E Broad Street
Richmond, VA United States 23219West Virginia Department of Transportation
Division of Highways
Building 5, Room A-110
Charleston, WV United States 25305-0430Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY United States 40622Minnesota Department of Transportation
Transportation Building
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St Paul, MN United States 55155Idaho Department of Transportation
P.O. Box 7129
3311 W. State Street
Boise, ID United States 83707-1129Washington State Department of Transportation
Transportation Building
Olympia, WA United States 98504Indiana Department of Transportation
Indiana Government Center North
100 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN United States 46204-2249Utah Department of Transportation
4501 South 2700 West
Project Development
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84114-8380New Jersey Department of Transportation
1035 Parkway Avenue
Trenton, NJ United States 08625California Department of Transportation
1227 O Street
Sacramento, CA United States 95814 200 NE 21st Street
Oklahoma City, OK United States 73105Nebraska Department of Transportation
1500 Highway 2
P.O. Box 94759
Lincoln, NE United States 68509-4759Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Keystone Building
400 North Street
Harrisburg, PA United States 17120Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
Research Development & Technology Transfer
3132 Channel Dr
Juneau, AK United States -
Managing Organizations:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St Paul, MN United States 55155 -
Project Managers:
Halverson, Leif
- Start Date: 0
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Environmental impacts; Highway maintenance; Highway safety; Outreach; Sustainable transportation; Technology transfer; Winter maintenance
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01773728
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
- Contract Numbers: TPF-5(479)
- Files: RIP, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jun 6 2021 10:18AM