Adaptive Management to Improve Deicing Operations
The goal of this project is to find ways to further reduce the use of deicing salts by linking automatically collected data from salting trucks to automatically collected water quality data. The outcomes will take adaptive management (AM) for deicing operations to a new level that would achieve both traffic mobility goals and water quality goals (lower chloride, Cl). The University will communicate this information throughout the state with a web-based AM tool (e.g., a simple spreadsheet tool) and documentation, an online video presentation, and presentation of findings at several professional conferences. This research may lead to multiple benefits: material cost savings; labor savings; user savings; construction savings; reduced life cycle costs; reduced environmental damage; reduced risk; user benefits.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $204,000.00
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Contract Numbers:
1003325 WO#35
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Sponsor Organizations:
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St. Paul, Minnesota United States 55155-1899 -
Managing Organizations:
Minnesota Department of Transportation
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St Paul, MN United States 55155 -
Project Managers:
Fateh, Omar
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Performing Organizations:
University of Minnesota Department of Bioproducts/Biosystems Engineering
1390 Eckles Ave.
St. Paul, MN United States 55108 -
Principal Investigators:
Baker, Lawrence
- Start Date: 20170623
- Expected Completion Date: 20210331
- Actual Completion Date: 0
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Deicing; Deicing chemicals; Runoff; Snowplows; Winter maintenance
- Subject Areas: I62: Winter Maintenance;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01638360
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 1003325 WO#35
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jun 23 2017 10:28AM