Examine how newer technologies are providing superior safety, performance, cost, and environmental benefits to winter road maintenance operations. Scientific research will be presented, as well as case studies from European countries with major snowfall, to demonstrate why and how these technologies are meeting increased demands for safer roads, lower environmental impact, and superior fleet management while solving problems resulting from current salt and labor shortages.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify alternative technologies for optimizing salt performance and usage and evaluate the science behind the effectiveness of the 70:30 pre-wetting technology.

2. Develop a plan for snow and ice removal by understanding new technologies that simplify driver operations, minimize training requirements, enhance road safety, and complete jobs quicker and more efficiently to minimize labor demands and overtime costs.

3. Evaluate and optimize fleet performance understanding the value of advanced telematics to control and track salt usage, road conditions and driver routes, as well as record and optimize routes.

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Eileen Petridis ;Marcus Scherer PhD

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