COST Transport
Publications COST 309 Road Weather ConditionsFinal Report
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
1992 - 146 pp - 16.2 x 22.9 cm
ISBN 92-826-3244-X
EUR 13847
Also available in FR
Price : ECU 12.50
There is a growing number of sophisticated tools available to the roadmaster, which successfully combine various new and leading-edge technologies. Blending the expertise of the weather forecasters with modern environmental monitoring and display systems provides the roadmaster with the best possible means of optimizing the latest hardware and management techniques available.
COST 309 deals especially with road weather and winter maintenance, particularly with respect to local road authorities, and combines the expertise of meteorologists, road engineers and instrument manufacturers.
The project has the following objectives:
- to explore the most effective methods of detecting, forecasting and mapping hazardous weather-related road conditions and of taking action to improve their effects;
- to quantify the costs and benefits of such methods and actions;
- to recommend areas where common research can be carried out and common operational standards established.
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