Severe Weather Index

Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration collects a number of datasets requiring analyses for reporting winter operations. It is difficult to assess varying degrees of winter severity after an event, or to compare from year to year. The objective of this project is to develop a severe weather index, by area, by Shop, for every winter storm event (to be easily calculated after a weather event has happened). The index will consider costs incurred, resources (labor, equipment and material) deployed, and contracts used for both snow and ice events. It will also consider traffic volume, wind speed, pavement temperature, geography, topography, and public expectation. Based on the indices for all weather events in a winter, an annual winter severity index will be developed.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Contract Numbers:

  SP809B4G

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration

  707 North Calvert Street
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21202
• Project Managers:

  Xiang, Hua

• Performing Organizations:

  Western Transportation Institute

  Montana State University
  P.O. Box 174250
  Bozeman, MT  United States  59717-4250
• Principal Investigators:

  Fay, Laura

• Start Date: 20180215
• Expected Completion Date: 20200630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Highway maintenance; Indexes (Information management); Resource allocation; Weather conditions; Winter; Winter maintenance
• Identifier Terms: Maryland State Highway Administration
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01658832
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Maryland State Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: SP809B4G
• Files: RiP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 1 2018 9:25AM