Road Talk - Ontario's Transportation Technology Transfer Digest
Road Talk is a monthly publication of the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario and is distributed provincially, nationally and internationally. For more information, please visit http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/transtek/roadtalk/
Recent Issues (2011):
Vol 17, no 4 [PDF]
Vol 17, no 3 [PDF]
Vol 17, no 2 [PDF]
Vol 17, no 1 [PDF]
Oranizations
● FHWA
● Aurora (RWIS - US/MTO/MTQ)
● Clarus (MDSS/ITS - US)
● Clear Roads (Maintenance Treatments - US)
● SICOP (Test, AASHTO)
● The Pacific Northwest Snowfighters (PNS)
● PIARC (World Road Congress, International Winter Road Congress)
Conferences and Proceedings
● TRB Annual Meeting
- TRB Transportation Research Circular, Maintenance Management 2009, Presentations from the 12th AASHTO–TRB
Maintenance Management Conference. [PDF]
● SIRWEC
- SIRWEC Conferences (200~2008)
● Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
● Canadian Society for Civil Enigneering (CSCE)
● 2008 International Symposium on Snow Removal and Ice Control Technology. [PDF]
Performance Measurement
● WTI, Development of Winter Severity Index, 2005 (excellent review of literature on WSI)
● NCHRP 136,Performance Measures for Snow and Ice Control Operations
● The Effects of Winter Road Maintenance (review on literature...)
● Hanbali, Rashad M. (1992), "Influence of winter road maintenance on traffic accident rates", Marquette University,
Milwaukee, WI
● Carl-Gustaf Wallman and H. Astrom (2001),Friction Measurement Methods and The Correlation between Road Friction
and Traffic Safety - A Literature Review. [PDF]
Technologies and Tools
Maintenance Guidelines
Deicing and Anti-icing Materials and Methods
● Development of an Improved Agricultural-Based Deicing Product (2010)
● Sanding-Winter Research Project by Norwegian Public Roads Administration
● Pre-wetting and Anti-icing —Techniques for Winter Road Maintenance
● Winter Friction Project in Norway
● Study of Warm, Pre-Wetted Sanding Method at Airports in Norway
● Field and Laboratory Investigation of Anti-Icing/Pretreatment, Ph.D. Thesis (2008)
Companies
● Vaisala
● AerotechTelub ITS Technology, Sweden
● Boschungs, Switzerland
● Coastal Evironmental Systems, US
● Cross, Czech Republic (Winter maintenance index information)
● LAB-EL, Poland
● Lufft, Germany
● Optical Scientific, USA
● ScanMatic, Norway
● Surface Systems, USA
● Friction: Holliday Technologies Inc.