Institute for Transportation

About the research

Objective
This effort, led by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation with assistance from the Swedish Road Administration and the Meteorological Service of Canada, was undertaken to promote the development of decision support tools that help winter maintenance personnel take appropriate preventative measures needed in different weather conditions. This project produced details of both Sweden’s and FHWA’s approaches to classifying environmental conditions for material application and a report describing Ontario’s De-icing Anti-icing Response Treatment (DART) database.This effort, led by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation with assistance from the Swedish Road Administration and the Meteorological Service of Canada, was undertaken to promote the development of decision support tools that help winter maintenance personnel take appropriate preventative measures needed in different weather conditions. This project produced details of both Sweden’s and FHWA’s approaches to classifying environmental conditions for material application and a report describing Ontario’s De-icing Anti-icing Response Treatment (DART) database.