Best Practices on monitoring deployment Road Weather

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Best Practices on monitoring deploymentRoad
Weather
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Road weather monitoring and incident
responseIMPACT OF CLIMATIC CHANGES

• Less snow, red. of days with freezing conditions,
  more gusting winds, rain and flowing, landslides
  problems
• Met office gives predictions for windgusts based
  on data from RWS
• Extreme conditions in general, fast changes and
  uncertain future

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Road Weather Models for Increased Road Traffic
Safety
Road Weather Models for Increased Road Traffic
Safety

• Maintenance decision support systems
• Processing data
• Information to drivers through weather models.
• Warnings and speed limits according to the
  prevailing road conditions

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Improving of road weather forecasting by using
high resolution satellite data

• Education
• Feedback is important

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GPS controlled salt spreading

• Preventive actions
• Drivers can focus on driving traffic safety
• The salt ends where it should
• Together with better forecasts save salt and
  environment.